Even though I may approach balanced beauty, I never really achieve it, which is what makes me want to try again and again. I feel that as long as there is a sense of preference pointing in the direction of perfection, there must exist an ideal beauty somewhere.
Balloons & Houses © Ulf Enhörning
50×50 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2013
House in Gysinge © Ulf Enhörning
60×60 cm, Oil on Panel, 2013
Field Tapestry © Ulf Enhörning
60×60 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2013
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Ulf Enhörning Artist Bio
Ulf Enhörning, born 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden, was introduced to the great masters at an early age when his grandmother, also an artist, took him to art museums and galleries in Stockholm. Salvador Dali was, at that time, the artist he admired most. At 15, his family immigrated to Toronto where he discovered the monumental paintings of Lawren Harris.
At 21, he was introduced to oil painting at the University of Waterloo while studying music. His first painting was of a nude, which he placed in an imaginary landscape of mountains and a sky full of clouds. Her face resembled a work his grandmother had painted of his mother. He became obsessed with this painting and felt the need to work on his own and quickly found a studio space on campus where the teacher would visit to see his progress. Later he studied briefly at the Victoria College of Art, Victoria, Canada, but did not stay long as he felt the teachers were imposing their views too much. He wanted to explore art without the influence of traditions and trends.
In the past 10 years, he has painted many land and city-scapes on site in Canada, Portugal and Sweden. He enjoys working outside in the large studio and appreciates feedback from bypassers. But whether or not he paints from real life, imaginary landscapes or abstracts his prime objective is to express light which can only be done though its opposite – shadow.
There is a deliberate dichotomy in his dialogue between opposite elements in his work; inside and outside, architectural and natural, straight and curved, shadow and light, confinement and open space, reality and dream. His work has been compared to Lawren Harris, René Magritte and Christopher Pratt in its surrealistic quality and architectural elements.
He has had over 90 exhibitions in the US, Canada and Sweden. There are over 650 paintings on his website.
Blog / Website: Summer Clouds
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