Elínrós Díanadóttir

Elínrós Díanadóttir is a Swedish–Icelandic artist based in Barcelona. Working primarily with painting, drawing, and mixed media, her practice centers on the human figure as a field of perception, emotion, and somatic presence rather than portrait or narrative. Her work moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction, using the body as a threshold where inner states and lived experience become visible.

Through layered color, intuitive mark-making, and moments of restraint, Díanadóttir explores transformation as a lived, embodied process.

For over twenty years, her work has been sensual, urgent, and intensely colorful, moving between figurative and abstract while maintaining a commitment to scale, presence, and emotional resonance. Her latest paintings deepen the exploration of somatic experience, and the interplay of harmony and conflict within the figure and its environment.

Artist Statement:

Painting is a site of encounter, where sensation, attention, and inner movement unfold like a natural phenomenon. I am drawn to the tensions that coexist within the body, within human experience, and within the natural world, and how they shape our lives.

I often begin with a sketch or drawing, but as I paint, a relationship between me ...

2007 – 2008 Ottawa School of Art Certificate, Fine Art, CA
2007 Awarded The Brodie Shearer Memorial scholarship at Ottawa school of Art, CA
2005 Linköpings universitet, Exhibition production course, SW
2000 – 2003 Culture School Carlforsska, Music, Music/Theory/History/Choir/Instruments, SW

2019 April, Solo exhibition at art space La Citadelle, Bastia, France
2019 Feb, Solo exhibition at art shop La P’tite Usine, Bastia, France
2017 May, Solo exhibition at hotel 2 Friends Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda
2016 April, Solo exhibition, ‘The Divine Matrix’, art house MishMash, Kampala, Uganda
2014 July-Sept, 7 week Group exhibition at See // Exhibition space, New York
2012 Sept, Group exhibition Team Rex at Red Gallery, London, UK
2012 July, Group exhibition Leytonstone Arts Trail, London, UK