Charlotte Swiden
In my artwork The Answers Always Change,I explore the interplay of two identities and cultures,And the tensions that emerge from their coexistence.
Charlotte Swiden is a Swedish artist and designer living in Melbourne, Australia. Her work is greatly influenced by her Scandinavian heritage and love of nature. Charlotte has a background in art and design and has spent the past twenty years working in graphic and product design both in Sweden and Australia. She moved to Australia in 2005 to undertake a BA in Communication Design at RMIT University where she focused on illustration and printmaking.
Charlotte Swiden's years of design experience have given her an extraordinary eye for form and function. Her geometric paintings have a Matisse-like quality to them and are inspired by her Scandinavian heritage and love of nature. Her medium is acrylic paint and impasto, which she uses to create bold forms in rich colours to reflect modern life and inner landscapes. Swiden’s work has been shaped by the interplay of two identities, two cultures, and the tensions that lie between them.
Charlotte’s disciplined approach to composition and colour, honed as a graphic designer, has transmuted into something softer and closer to nature. Modernist painters are an influence which permeates her work, most notably in the reductionist abstraction and fragmented overlaying representations of figure and object. The mood of each painting shifts along a scale of emotion.
- Art: Charlotte Swiden
