Residency artists and researchers

Painting, drawing, printmaking

Elida Runeson

MFA

During the latest time I have felt that my work is a bit split up I have had the feeling that I want to do something new.

And that I can not do what I have been doing before.

What I have been doing before is paintings that are narrative and mostly figurative.
They are showing an inner landscape and they are about existential thoughts.

Lately I have been painting some pictures with forms that are existing in a space.
The new pictures are not narrative.
They have a kind of figurative entrance but the outcome is more abstract.
With this work I felt a releasing feeling.

Today I don’t know what way my work will take.
I know that I can do both.
And I know that this is a part of the process to wander around in different ways of painting to tune in to what place I am at painterly and to keep the process in motion.

Though, I feel a big need to build up the concentration and the frequency in working to get further and deeper in it. I think that the artistic process is a part of something wider, a developing process in my life in general.

In that way I am really a part of my work and it explains a lot about why one has to be at a good place both physical and spiritual when working.

I think that were I now am, is in a period of shifting old into new.
I can not know were my work will go, yet.