Josefin Hill

For me, art is to enter a room of my own. A room where I never really know what´s going to happen. I enter the painting with an open mind. Sometimes the colour lead me into the painting and I follow and sometimes the expression lead the way. I use several kind of media like, acrylic, tempera, oil, ink, pastels, oil crayons and more. A painting can start with a word that comes to me or a feeling that wants to be dressed in colour and shapes. I often end up in a kind of poetic landscape or a memory I want to recreate and translate into colour and form. I return to questions of existential nature and whats it is all about.
My curiosity to explore different media too meet my need for different expressions, is the origin of why I also express myself in words. All are very interconnected even though I do not show all the different work that has taken me to the specific artwork. I am convinced that art can transform all kinds of feelings into something significant and that there is always an exchange between the work and the viewer. The work continues to change not only because the viewer is replaced but also by the same viewer. Keeping the creative channel open and becoming sensitive to impressions is a part of being an artist (and a hum...

Art and Design Studies (painting, sculpture, graphic, 3D, design) at Art School Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm
Design at Beckmans School of Design
Art School Birkagården, Sculpture and painting, Stockholm
Several workshops and courses in these fields.
Trained Art Therapist/Therapist, Stockholm

Group Exhibition "Art Of Presence" Montserrat Gallery, NY, USA 2023
Group Exhibition"Nature Speaks To Us" Stefania Carrozzini Gallery Venice, Italy 2023
Group Exhibition "Abundance" MyMicroGallery Milano, Italy 2023
Solo exhibition "Atmospheres" Jan-Feb 2020 Lidingö Town hall, Stockholm
Solo exhibition "As I remember it" December 2018 Gallery Movitz, Stockholm
Solo exhibition "Spheres and states" January 2017 Gallery Hornsgatan 46, Stockholm
Design www.josefinhill.com 2014 -
Design patterns, textile, cushions, trays etc.
Poetrybooklet "Anemones that makes hands to pick" 2010 Poetry and illustrations, co-writer
Group exhibition 2007 Art therapy class Stockholm
Music projects 1999-2002
Group exhibition 2001 Art School Birkagården Stockholm
Exhibition "Sparkling" 2000 Katthamra gård Gotland
Groupexhibition 1997 Artschool Nyckelviksskolan, Lidingö Stadshus, Stockholm
Group exhibition 1996 Beckmans School of Design, Stockholm