What I do and how I do it

Making pictures is like putting together a puzzle. It is a search , a constant inner dialogue between me and the paper. I try not to think to much but instead follow my first impuls. I am a narrative artist and work with both words and pictures, as a writer, as an illustrator, as an artist. I make books, paintings, sculpture and video works. Or any other artform or material that I feel curious about. I often work with the fairy tale idiom and archetypes. I like to mix in a dose of surrealism. The state between dream and reality interests me. I’m trying to dig where I stand. Most times when I paint, I start off not knowing what to paint, I have no clear plan, but images emerge during the work. There is a sense of humour and strangeness in my work. An anticipation of the big catastrophy. Life and death. Guilt and shame. Love. Getting lost. I am interested in the transition from childhood to adulthood. A recurring color is red.

Sara Lundberg is educated at McDaniel College, USA, and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She is internationally acknowledged both as an illustrator and as a writer of children’s books and has been nominated to The Nordic Council Literature Award for her works. She has won the August Prize several times, in 2017 for her critically acclaimed The Bird Within Me Flies.