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ELISABETH wEJSFLOg | sweden
www.wejsflog.com
Polish born Elisabeth currently lives in Sweden since 1976. ”The
studio is located in the street level of a more than hundred years old
house near the Saint Pauli Church in the park avenue kungsgatan
in Malmoe, Sweden.
She works with prints as well as oil and acrylic on canvas and
watercolours. ’I wanted to be a musician once’, Elisabeth says.”
Chopin is her favourite composer. She and the composer have this
in common, that both left their home country Poland in their youth.
”I do not paint the musicians” she says, ’It is the Music’. It is not
possible to grip it, keep it, and then paint it. It is airy and has to be
caught in the flight.
Elisabeth uses watercolour crayons as a compliment to the colours
to be able to work fast and light-handed. The art critic Stig Åke
Stålnacke gives the following words about Elisabeth wejsflog in a
catalogue: ’Emotion is the only thing that counts to this woman, who
is mighty of creating such dramatic paintings. Everything else has
been cleaned out, and what remains is a woman travelling through
life with Passion as her only luggage.’”
| pool, 2004 wATerColor 20x24,5 in. | 50x63 Cm.
| splAsh in A pool, 2004 wATerColor 18.5x22,5 in. | 48x58 Cm.
| swimmer, 2004 wATerColor 16x20 in. | 41x51 Cm.
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