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Paintings on paper, board, wood, canvas and natural linen.

Some of the paintings that are shown here
can be found on my Etsy Shop.

Mainly I focus on Kurbits and some other old Scandinavian patterns. Sometimes I also pick up inspiration from objects and paintings from other cultures farther away.

Kurbits is the pattern that was invented and developed by the farmers in the Leksand parish in Dalarna in Sweden around 1780. They made wall decorations and later also on papers for selling. The word Kurbits is from Latin Cucurbita, which means gourd.
The story from the Bible was that Jonah was swallowed by a big fish, then spitted out (saved by God) and rested under a tree, which in the Latin Bible was called gourd, which was a wrong translation. But this fantasy tree called Cucurbita became the symbol of God's power and focus for worship already in Rome, and it was picked up by the painters in Dalarna, around the village Ullvi, and turned into a very specific tree where we can see the big decorated gourds hanging out from the sides between big "roses". This divine tree of life became a known symbol for Sweden, together with the Dala Horse.  
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As a child, I have been living in the Leksand parish in Dalarna, which is the area where the typical Swedish Kurbits painting was developed around 1800. The impulse to learn to make Kurbits paintings came in 1978 when I visited the village Skattungbyn in Dalarna.
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