Agneta Ekholm

Agneta's delicate yet robust abstract paintings are suggestive of natural and organic phenomenon such as cocoons, droplets, indistinct microcosms in nature, light shafts, and illuminations.

Finnish artist Agneta Ekholm trained at the Swedish Art School of Nykarleby before attending Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and graduating with a BFA (honours) in painting. She continues to live in Melbourne but the memory of her Scandinavian childhood influences her art. As a child, she was fascinated with the suspensions of rock, branches, and detritus trapped underneath ice; those small universes, alive yet inaccessible to her.

Agneta's delicate yet robust abstract paintings reference the microcosmic worlds trapped beneath the thick ice of the Scandinavian winter. By working with extremely fine layers of paint built up gradually, Agneta creates the effect of looking through some kind of prism, where light shifts and is refracted. One gets the sense of a solid yet transparent object, and through her skillful layering she leads you through this object, into the dense yet simultaneously open space inside the picture plane. (Brown, 2009)

Through her sparing use of colour, Agneta draws attention to detailed configurations created by layers of shapes and gestures. These abstract works suggest natural and organic phenomena: indistinct microcosms, light shafts, illuminations.

Agneta exhibits throughout Australia and New Zealand as well as Finland, Columbia, and Hong Kong.

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