Agneta Ekholm's paintings "are, in short, paintings of refined sensibility where less is always more, although this does not mean they are delicate or visually fragile. Only those inflicted with the visual equivalent of a tin ear could surely fail to savour the eloquence of these subtly nuanced works"
Dr Christopher Heathcote

Artist Statement: My current work is by definition abstract and it is built entirely from imagination and engagement with my technical process. Each painting evolves on the canvas: no working drawings exist.

The viewer is immersed in the luxurious ebb and flow of paint and mysterious forms which might be suggestive of radiological images, landscapes, light-play, water flow or movement: many personal associations may be provoked. The scope of individual response to the paintings reflects an indefinable quality that is essential to the work’s ultimate success. 

The paintings result from the exploration and discovery inherent in a technique honed over the last number of years.

Working with fast-drying acrylic and water, I use a sponge to apply layer upon layer of shapes and gestures with solid pigment and transparent washes, while continually washing and rubbing sections away until the final complex image is built. I may work for days on a small isolated section of the painting. It is an obsessive and fastidious process and the work travels a complex journey of twists and turns before I have found the ‘solution’ which is that paintings final incarnation.

 A spare use of colour focuses attention on a sense of movement in the forms framed by a still surround. In these works an inky blue creates a cool, dark and sensual space.

It seems paradoxical that the work, while time consuming and re-worked attentively over weeks and months, should appear at first glance simple and immediate.

The strong fluid and organic core stilled by the gentle ground , contributes to vague figurative and emotional qualities that the audience just cannot pin down.

Agneta Ekholm- 2011

COLLECTIONS
Embassy of Finland, Australia
Alan Wilson Collection
Taylors Group, Australia
Orix, Australia
Val Morgan collection
S. Keable & Co. Pty. Ltd.
Sony Music Corporation
Scarpi Collection
Dagmar Art Consultants
Brandt Revisionspartnerselskab, Denmark
Heidrick & Struggles
Rydges Hotel Group
Elio Sarpi Collection 
George Freeman Collection
Wyatt Alexander & Koistinen
Sioma Wajchman Collection
LK Mur & Platt Ab, Sweden
Goya Collection
Google, San Francisco, USA
Manson Group, Auckland, New Zealand
Art Associates, Auckland, New Zealand
Marriott Hotel, Beijing, China
Private Collections in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Scandinavia,
and the United States.