Stella Sæmundsdóttir

Stella is a Reykjavík artist, over the years she has attended various courses in model drawing, watercolour/oil painting as well as ceramics, but is mostly self-taught and now working with acrylic paint/watercolours on canvas. Her inspiration mostly comes from her own overactive inner world as well as the mind's relationship with nature, how our inner and outer worlds connect with each other and affect each other.

 

"I interpret on the canvas the energy that goes into challenging thoughts about complex issues that are invisible to others and I often work with the shape of the head that points to our invisible inner world that is connected to all of life, how we see it, experience it and shape it."
You can also often see references to rock formations, mountains etc as our inner world is in Stella´s eyes similar to nature, sometimes calm and gentle but at times great upheaval.