Brita Granström Swedish, b. 1969

Brita trained at the esteemed Konstfack in Stockholm where she was taught to hone her craft and experiment with different media and techniques and she subsequently settled on a wonderfully loose and skilled application of acrylic on canvas which is her preferred medium to date.  She has lived in the UK since 1993, on the North East coast, painting interior scenes from her domestic life as well as the seascapes on her doorstep.  Brita beautifully captures in her paintings those intimate and tender moments in every day life, so often missed or ignored.

Her 2021 and 2022 solo exhibitions held at Thompson's Gallery London were sell-outs. Her work can be found in private and public collections including The Ruth Borchard Collection.

"The landscapes of both Sweden and the British Isles feature strongly in my paintings; environments that are always changing, never still. Painting on location and in all weathers; both indoors and outdoors, produces paintings that, for me, encompass and celebrate themes of hope, humanity, life and mortality."

Whether her subject is of people, landscape or a bowl of flowers in front of a window, the underlying purpose is the same: the energy of nature finds its equivalence in sweeps and scribbles of paint, shapes and colours which together encompass a myriad of feelings.