Born in G\u00f6teborg in 1958, Stefan Kavsj\u00f6 is a Swedish painter who works with oil on canvas. He began painting at a young age, attending the Domen Art School in 1980, and it was almost 4 decades later, after a long career in advertising, that the brush once again found his hand.<\/p>\n
His work then gave way to landscapes devoid of all boundaries. For the artist, it\u2019s the way they can be transformed in a matter of minutes. If you follow the coast closely, the sky may be clear and then suddenly give way to a weather front coming in from the sea, rapidly changing the look and feel of the landscape. Familiar details can be lost in coastal fog, erased by a rainstorm or blurred by intense morning or evening sun. It is in these transitions from one state to another that his paintings are situated. Wandering periods, not a single moment as such.<\/p>\n
Nor are they meant to represent a particular place, hence the absence of geographical names. The idea of place should not define an image in the viewer\u2019s mind. The artist strives to create timeless views, possibly a memory of a place you have been, a feeling, an atmosphere at a particular time.<\/p>\n
Most of the paintings are based on sketches, photographs or simply memories of a walk. All the paintings are built up from thin glazes combined with a broad palette. The base colours can then affect the next glazes or be completely erased only to be revealed again as the layers are reworked while still wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":19948,"template":"","taxo_year_participe":[123],"class_list":["post-19947","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n