Linda Sönnerbo Buján

A highly particular artist and an artistry sprung from the desperate need of a lost17-year old´s efforts to survive in a world without logic. Frequent moves - both classwise and geographically - have fueled the changes in a visual language that is constantly in motion. Long sojourns in Sweden, France, Italy and Algeria, with a contrasting life and different strong characteristics, form the environmental spectrum she wishes to reflect in her art. The different worlds both are and have been instrumental in her creation and despite, superficially, a large variety of motifs and techniques used, continuity exists. A weakness for colouring reigns forever. The motifs are adapted to penetrate, under the surface, into the element or affect behind every piece of art. Her idea of visual arts were originally synonymous with oil painting. But experimentation and curiosity over time called for more dimensions and boundaries have been stretched in the hunt for existence. A presence creating its own laws in which the combination of substances does not let itself be governed by given conventions.

Following her photography exam in the mid-90´s her creative period came to a pause. After some achievements in the commercial photographic world, with its predictible work, her creative work had a slightly different focus, that of a combination of painting and photography. The two art forms are synonymously united.

Despite of studies for professional artists and at academies she is mentally a self-taught artist. Her early developped language of expression could never be overpowered and further academic education would have suppressed rather than developped this force. Continous efforts to improve the technical ability , in Sweden as well as abroad, are caused by her striving for perfection, since quality was always essential. The central source for progression was her own experimentation.

Born in Sweden. Lived for periods in France/Paris, Algeria/Algiers, Italy/Rome. Settling permanently in Spain/Barcelona from 2011.

Her ambition is her profound emotion, her intuitively working intellect as to discipline as well as to selection of material. She wants her pieces of art to concern and engage the viewer, as opposed to indifference.