About

I am a native of northern Sweden, where the midnight sun sparks the summers and the winters are cloaked in snowy darkness. In my early twenties I started to explore the world and moved to the UK, with frequent travels to Central America and the USA.

My interest is the anthropology of art and healing and how the current application of different art and healing modalities operates in the contemporary world.

For me, the process of applying paint to surfaces is connected to healing, the addition of colour is blending away that which was before and reveals a new radiant image/being. During painting, the application of colour becomes a transformational experience which energises the surface, as well as the body and soul, inside and out. Drawing is more of a grounding process, where I can express spontaneity in the moment and receive insights to aspects of my life.

My passion for colour and material culture and how these shape women’s identity was the focus of my academic studies for which I learnt to weave with Maya women in Guatemala. This deepened my knowledge of how creativity is connected to personhood and how material objects incite the development of social networks. 

I believe that the connectivity of creativity and healing is deeply transformational. The practice of creating activates receptivity, strengthens our inner guidance and enables soulful expansion. By taking practical steps in creating that which we harbour inside us, through a medium which we feel called to, we allow empowerment and continuous exploration in our journey.

I believe in the continuous process of evolving through self-exploration, with a focus on sharing ideas and experiences. My approach is to raise awareness of the unique qualities we all hold inside us through personal inquiry and how these can be form and be part of community.

Pia