Björn Wessman is today one of Sweden's most prominent landscape painters. With a poetic abstracting gaze, a sonorous colorite is created, own imagery we can refer to, where the limits of natural abstraction stimulate reflection over our own relationship with nature. Wessman's painting is far beyond the established codes for representation.It constitutes a kind of recilience in the form of a reliance on nature's own ability to heal.
"My painting and artistry has since my first exhibition in 1981
moved around the concept of the idea of the landscape.
It is not the landscape as a geographically conditioned image
but as painterly idea, with color and light, as building blocks and
material for painting's possibilities to reflect our time.
The landscapes have been interpreted in periods of light or dark & muted color scales,
in macro or micro perspectives like states in the time they were added in."
Bjorn Wessman