Contemporary abstract artist, Jenny Lundgren, explores the shift from recognition to perception—where the familiar dissolves into colour, light, and space. Through abstraction, she invites us to see differently and feel more deeply. Alongside her paintings, she now shares photographs of spring in Sweden, offering a glimpse into the spring landscape that quietly shapes her artistic sensibility.
JENNY LUNDGREN: How we see, and what we see. When we look at our surroundings without the fixed ideas of what things are, everything begins to dissolve into disjointed colours and shapes. If we focus on the spaces between - on light reflections, the meeting of surfaces, shifts in direction - what emerges is abstraction. The familiar slips into the background, making space for the more surprising.
Something is abstracted, something is fragmented, broken apart. Some things disappear whilst others are added. Yet depth, light and space are still sensed, still present. I work with abstraction and not with non - figuration. It is the poetry of colour.
Words describe as only words can. A painting describes as only a painting can. Colour and form hold the ability to express a state of being, an emotional terrain, a quiet formulation of what it might mean to be human - here and now.
To convey a feeling or, more powerfully, to describe a state - through colour and form.
April 22, 2025
