Andreas Johansson, born in 1968 in Luleå, currently lives and works both in Österlen with a studio at the top of Bästekille Backar, and in the north where he creates in his studio on a family farm in the small village of Gran. It is located high with the inland forest at its back and a view over the valley where the Kåge River flows.

Andreas has always created images, initially with a camera in his hand before switching to brushes and oil paints. For over thirty years, he has transferred his emotions onto canvases, but it wasn't until 2020 that he chose to fully devote himself to art. Andreas primarily paints in oil or acrylic and chooses his color palette according to the winds blowing in his inner emotional landscape.

When he paints in the studio in the special light of Österlen, his work is characterized by walks along the beaches and the freedom he feels from the wide views. Light takes a central role. Meanwhile, the forests of northern Sweden draw him towards a richer color palette where nature is close when he paints in his studio in Gran.

With colors, Andreas connects his thoughts and emotions to create the experimental works that can be perceived as fantasies captured on large canvases.

When he takes a brush in his hand, time and space disappear. His painting is colored by the tones flowing from the speakers, and he lets them guide him through the process in the artistic practice where he explores, discovers, and develops. He doesn't name his works, doesn't set any boundaries, and leaves it to the viewers to experience the paintings, to filter them through their own personal layers of everything that makes them who they are.

It is a language without words that more resembles listening to the tones of a beautiful piece of music or falling in love – it is something great and fascinating that is felt but difficult to put into words.