ABOUT ME

I, Mira, am an Umeå-based artist who paints nature-inspired motifs with hand-made pigments of mainly stones, earth, clay, ash and charcoal. I mix these with touches of acrylic paints and details with oil pastels, gold leaf, gold powder and acrylic pencils.

My works are strongly influenced by the power, structures and movements of nature. I often paint based on the season I'm in and mix an abstract basis with realistic places, both experienced and taken from the imagination.

It is a combination of the big and the small, the strong and the weak, the quiet and the wild, the primal and the magical.

Painting is a form of meditation for me that has been with me all my life. I can spend hours getting lost in deep forests, underwater worlds and dreamy landscapes. The places I depict are neither completely realistic nor completely fictional. It is usually a mixture of both, like a feeling of being in a dream.

My hope is to give the same feelings to the viewer of my art, that it will give a feeling of calm and security, almost like a kind of healing power.