Eva Carlberg Westelius
Artist
My watercolours
are at their best
if I manage to catch the light and athmosphere
in that easy way that is so atractive
To manage the technique of watercolour is harder than you think. Actually, behind every masterpeace there are countlessv of failures.
For many years I had summer classes in painting in Dordogne France and in wintertime in my studio in Stockholm. To meet these entusiastic participants was a challenge but also and mostly very pleasant.
Techniques:
Oil, tempera, waterclours and mixed techniques
Assignments:
Portraits and public decorations
Scolarships:
KROs studio i Paris 1999 and 2001
Education:
Konstfack, Stockholm 1959
Master in Art, Stockholm Universitet 1978-82
Two years of artclasses at Gerlesborgskolan 1985, 1990-93
I didn't become an artist automaticly. It took me until 1996 when I became a member of KRO (Konstnärernas Riksförbund) and FSK ( Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor) that I proudly called myself an artist. As Albert Camus said:
"To be creative is to live twice! "
It is difficult to describe one's art in words. In short, it is figurative and inspired by colors, impressions and visions. I feel for both my done and unfinished works as if they were my children. Once, when I had neglected my paintings for a long time, I had nightmares about them.
In my dreams they appeared as deformed little babies almost dying of starvation while I, stressed and worried, tried to help them in every way possible. Small or large, sold or gone, wherever they are liked or not, I care about my works as if they were friends for life.
Are you a real artist? asked my grandchildren once when we were painting together.
-Sure. Art is what I do and live for in Sweden
-Then your paintings must be in a museum now?
-No, that art is mostly done by dead artists I guess. My art is done in my studio and sometimes exposed in galleries and occationally on walls.
Anyway, that conversation got me thinking. Because of course we all want to be seen and remembered in some way. Important or not. If not exactly represented in a museum, then at least noticed in media and on-line. That's why we are seeing each other here...
