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Alma Andersson

Helsingborg, Skåne, Sweden

I was born in 1959 and grew up in Šiauliai Lithuania Graduated as a nurse at Šiauliai Higher School...

About the artist

Alma Andersson

Joined In 2020

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About the artist

Alma Andersson

Joined In 2020

(1 Follower)

ABOUT
EDUCATION

I was born in 1959 and grew up in Šiauliai Lithuania
Graduated as a nurse at Šiauliai Higher School of Medicine 1979 but never worked as such, during the 80's I was more of an entrepreneur and worked as self-employed in various sectors both in Lithuania and Moscow. When Lithuania became free, I went over to the United States and worked for a year as a beauty consultant with Russian-speaking clients, but for family reasons I had to return to Lithuania after only one year.

In 1999 I moved to Gnosjö Sweden, trained in psychiatry and worked at a treatment home.
Due to family reasons in 2007, I became deeply depressed but managed to get out of this by painting, something that was completely new to me. It all started one morning when I got an irresistible urge to start painting the same morning I went to the nearest store and bought acrylic paints then I made my first painting on an A4 sheet, after this day I painted continuously even when I visited my friends I had always with colors and paper I did not think of anything other than just putting my imagination through the colors of paper when I painted I had to be completely in the present and in my own little "world", this allowed me to get away from my negative thoughts and find p...

In addition to a one-year education with an artist, I am self-taught and autodidact