Female Artists in Reachings Watercolor Exhibition

Female artists have created countless remarkable works throughout art history. With their warm brushstrokes and profound emotions, they depict a way of life characterized by symbiosis, collaboration, and camaraderie, presenting the world with a rich and diverse artistic landscape. In the Reachings Watercolor Exhibition, we are honored to welcome several outstanding female artists. Let us step into their artistic worlds together and explore the beauty they have brought to life through their unique perspectives and creativity.

Anne-Lie Larsson Ljung

Anne-Lie Larsson Ljung is represented in many public collections, e.g. Swedish Embassy in Madrid (Statens konstråd), and is also chairman of the Graphic Society, which has existed for 112 years. She works with drawing, graphics and painting, with nature as a motif. And in the traditional way, she paints a lot of the works out in nature. Larsson Ljung has tried different materials. For ten years she worked with oak and made wooden sculptures. Sometimes with a chainsaw. Now her paintings are mostly inspired by the Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic era, but also by artists such as Anselm Kiefer.

Birgitta Muhr

Painter and sculptor with a long row of public commissions all around Sweden. Member of The Swedish Sculptors’ Association and The Swedish Printmakers’ Association.

Elina Eriksson

Elina Eriksson is a Stockholm-based artist primarily working with the medium of painting. Her stylings exist in the space between intuitive abstraction and descriptive familiarity. Swift and supple strokes of prismatic colour flow across the surfaces, like driven forward by the wind or other elemental forces, assembling as invigorative visions of life itself. Eriksson approaches the world around her using art as a tool for interpretation, thus her motifs vary in accordance with setting and subject, but pervasive is a sensory and spiritual connectedness between the carnal, the natural and the ethereal. Eriksson’s paintings convey an esoteric ambiguity that correlates the flow of windswept nature with the veins spindling through our bodies, suggesting that there exists a common plane of understanding for all that is living.

Eva Olofsson

Eva Olofsson was born in Ronneby, Sweden, August 25, 1967, and died in Stockholm, October 30, 2024. She grew up in Örebro with an art teacher as a father. Alongside her own artwork, she later became responsible for an organization that worked with autistic artists. There she led the artistic work and arranged art exhibitions all over Europe. Later in life she also lived in Beijing for two years, working as an artist and showing her work in exhibitions.

Han Xiao 韩笑

Han Xiao, Master of Calligraphy and Seal Cutting from the School of Fine Arts, Nanjing Normal University. Member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association and Jiangsu Provincial Calligraphers Association. Works have been exhibited in the First Jiangsu Women’s Calligraphy Exhibition (highest award), the First National Calligraphy Small Works Exhibition, the Seventh National Couplet Calligraphy Exhibition, and the Second New York International Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, among others.

Lill Sjöström

During half of the 2000s, Lill Sjöström gathered inspiration from nature in Gotland, where she was born, and the old viking regions where she lived, from travels she made to countries with vast plains, high mountains and great oceans. During the last 25 years, she have painted and woven cloudy skies, misty fields, dusk and dawn. Lill is a member of Uppsala Konstnärsklubb and Adelante Art.

Su Zhen 苏震

Su Zhen graduated from Beijing University of Technology with a major in Industrial Art and Design, and later completed advanced studies in Figure Design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. She has served as an Art Director and Project Planner at several jewelry, home decor, and design companies in Beijing, accumulating extensive experience in creativity and design. Today, she is dedicated to art education and the promotion of traditional Chinese culture, actively engaging in activities to share the beauty of Chinese art in Sweden.

Wu Jun 吴珺

Wu Jun is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and digital content creator. She is a member of Svenska Tecknare (The Swedish Association of Illustrators and Graphic Designers). Currently, she teaches minimalist children’s drawing classes in Sweden, dedicated to inspiring children’s imagination and artistic potential.