Björn Wessman

b. 1949

As a contemporary landscape painter, Björn Wessman occupies a special place on the Swedish art scene. His powerful, color-saturated landscapes all have an unmistakable ”wessmanian” character. Nature is the eternal source of inspiration in an oeuvre that often lands right between the concrete and the abstract.

Wessman studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, graduating in 1981. He also has background as a student of literary and his work is often accompanied by text. Wessman is represented in all major Swedish museum collections and his exhibition history is extensive, recently with a major exhibition at Millesgården in Lidingö.