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H. Johannes Lindgren
We are huge fans of the work of Swedish artist H. Johannes
Lindgren. His paintings, known as Swirls, will add a touch of
animalistic chicness to almost any room. Johannes recently
took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to chat with
Pouf! Magazine about his art.
Did you always know you wanted to be a painter?
I had no intention until I was about 12 years old and discovered
90s street art which I found to be really cool. Street art
took me where the traditional art couldn’t direct me.
How do you find peace and inspiration to paint?
Inspiration attacks me more often than I need to search for
it. It’s more about peeling off inspiration to get to the core
of what’s really important. That can be difficult sometimes.
It helps to be centred through meditation and Qigong.
what other artists do you look up to?
Besides from Swedish artists such as Anders
Zorn and Carl Larsson I like Mode 2 who is
a graffiti artist. Wassily Kandinsky had some
interesting ideas in his book Concerning the
Spiritual in Art. I believe that art affects us
more than we think.
what do you want convey through your art?
I strive to mediate harmonious elements taken
from nature. My intention is to refine the
experience of shape by only using black and
white. I work with the energy that occurs in
the meeting between black/white and shapes.
A state of balance and freedom is a kind of
starting point where the viewer can be given
space to contemplate.
I believe that art affects
us more than we think
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