Elsa Akesson

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

As an emerging artist from Sweden and Madagascar, Elsa ÅKESSON finds herself painting works inspired by both cultures. Recognized for her realistic figurative art works and her splash of vivid colors, she uses her photography as one of her main creative sources and evokes distinct emotions experienced in daily life, through the expression of color and the incorporation of human movement through her art. Growing up with a Father who was an art passionate and collector, her artistic inspirations firstly derived from her own Father encouraging her to enter the Arts. Born and raised in Madagascar, she later moved to Switzerland with her brother, United Kingdom, Spain, to then moving back to London making it her artistic base to emerge herself fully in the field. Her travels making her a citizen of the world, is retrieved in her art through her subject matters and artistic techniques. As a self-taught artist working on an international scale, Elsa Åkesson today specializes in oil painting and continues to teach herself new artistic techniques she discovers through experimentation and practice.

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