Spring:

New Watercolors by Karin Oldfelt Hjertonsson opens at More North gallery, NYC, this weekend. Oldfelt Hjertonsson lives and works in Stockholm and New York and, while trained in a variety of materials and techniques, has in recent years exclusively worked with watercolor painting. 

  • Poppies [22 x 30 in. watercolor on paper]

  • April 4 – 14, 2009

  • Tulip Flowerbed I [22 x 30 in. watercolor on paper]

  • 39 North Moore St. New York, NY 10013
    For more info, see www.morenorth.com or call (212) 334-5541

  • Blue Flowerbed [22 x 30 in. watercolor on paper]

  • More North opens an exhibition with Swedish watercolorist Karin Oldfelt Hjertonsson this weekend. The artist lives and works in Stockholm and New York. She studied oil painting in Brussels at the Academie des Beaux Arts and wood cut techniques in Chile. This latter field of study resulted in the artist illustrating Pablo Neruda's book Maremoto. In the 1990s Hjertonsson worked in Havana; here she worked with lithographs, woodcuts and silk-screens with a focus on various themes from Cuban nature and wildlife. During recent years in Finland, Sweden and New York she has dedicated herself exclusively to watercolor painting. These works tend towards the abstract; taking inspiration from nature in the form of clouds, flowers and landscapes.

  • Swedish artist Karin Oldfelt Hjertonsson (left) and Valerie Anderson (General Manager of Nurture Nature Foundation) at the opening of Oldfelt’s exhibition at the Gabarron Foundation in New York earlier this year. www.gabarronfoundation.org

  • Select Exhibitions by Karin Oldfelt Hjertonsson:
    2009 Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts, New York
    2007 Salander- O'Reilly Gallery; New York
    2006 Ålands Art Museum; Mariehamn, Sweden
    2006 Eklund Wallmark Gallery; Stockholm, Sweden
    2006 Linné Gallery; Uppsala, Sweden
    2006 Aquatinte Gallery; Strasbourg, France
    2005 Old Kaplansgården Gallery; Borgå, Sweden
    2005 Watercolor Association of Finland; Riga, Latvia
    2005 Tikanojas Arthouse; Vasa, Finland
    2004 Heinola Art Museum; Heinola, Finland
    2004 Hanaholmens Cultural Center; Helsinki, Finland
    2004 Stenlund Gallery; Stockholm, Sweden
    2003 Ekenäs Museum; Ekenäs, Sweden
    2003 Watercolor Association of Finland; Finland
    2003 Emil Cedercreuts Museum and Imatra Art Museum
    2003 Galleria Pirkko-Liisa Topelius; Helsinki, Finland
    2003 Tidö Castle; Västerås, Sweden
    2002 Pirkko- Liisa Topelius Gallery; Helsinki, Finland
    1994 Aix Gallery Group Show; Parliament of Stockholm
    1994 Huddinge, Folkets hus
    1994 St. Lars Gallery; Linköping, Sweden
    1994 Museum of Natural History; Stockholm, Sweden