After Art-school I didn't become an artist automatically. Although I made films, photos, pictures, designs and paintings all the time
while teaching art for a living - it was not until 1996 when becoming a member of Swedish Artist Association, KRO, I felt it was right to
call myself an artist. In other words, my art has taken years to mature.
”Art is a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.” I read somewhere. Perhaps. If you consider what it involves: projects, competitions, exhibitions, assignment, tidy up messy studios and working spaces, besides packing and all the transportations. Yes, it is hard work. But also a fantastic part of your life.
I love art, art that speaks to me. Because, as Albert Camus puts it and my daughter reminded me: " To be creative is to live twice! "
-Are you a real artist? my grandchildren asked when we were painting together. We meet just a few times a year.
-Sure. Art is what I do, I said.
-Are your paintings in a museum now? they wanted to know.
-No, not yet, that art is mostly by dead artists... Still. It made me think. Of course, everyone wants to be remembered somehow.
If not dead represented in a museum, people like to show up in media. Internet. On the web. That is where people meet today.
And that is why I am here.
Eva Carlberg Westelius
Techniques:
oil, tempera, watercolour, mixed techniques, acrylic
Assignments:
portraits and public commissions
Scholarships:
KRO Carina Ari studio, Paris 1999 och 2001
Education:
Art-school, Konstfack, Stockholm 1959 -1963
University 1978-82 and Gerlesborg 1985, 1990-93
Exhibitions:
2015 Konsthallen, Stockholm
2013 Konsthallen Stockholm
2011 Konsthallen Stockholm
2009 Konsthallen Stockholm
2007 Konsthallen, Stockholm
2006 Konstnärsföreningen, Västerås
2003 Konsthallen Stockholm
2001 Konsthallen Stockholm
1999 Cité International des Arts, Paris
1997 Stovner Center Fossum, Oslo
1996 Galleri Bellman Stockholm
1995 Landstingshuset Stockholm
1994 Galleri Connaissance Stockholm
1994 Bohus Galleri, Uddevalla
1993 Galleri Ranarrike, Tanumshede
1992 Hantverksbyn Gerlesborg
Commissions:
2000-02 Heli Kirke, Spydeberg
1999 AB Mimer, Västerås
1998 Frogn Kirke Dröback, Norge
1996 NOR Försäkrings AB, Oslo
1994 Fossum Stovner Center, Oslo,
1993-94 Kulturhuset, Stockholm
1982 Åhlens, Skövde