Astrid Sylwan

b. 1970

Astrid Sylwan usually calls herself a landscape painter, mostly becuase she starts off her paintings with a darker skeleton and then adds colour layer by layer. And it is perhaps not above all to landscapes that the viewer associates with, standing in front of Sylwan's often large-scale and colorful paintings where colour is added to colour in layers that all communicate with and add depth to one another.

After graduating from the University of Arts, Craft and Design in 2005, Astrid Sylwan had her big breakthrough with her drip paintings – basically experiments with color and form, but concentrated around the dripping of the paint over the canvas. Since then, her work has been shown both in Sweden and internationally, and she has been recognized as one of Sweden's most prominent painters today.