Catrine Lindström (b. 1971, Stockholm) lives and works in Stockholm.
Catrine Lindström is represented by Agora gallery in New York, participated in the exhibition Art Nordic Denmark in 2022-2023 and the exhibition Placrylic Art Fair in York Wales in November 2022.
Catrine's work is characterized by exploration and joy. She creates intuitively, without rig-id control. She follows the impulse of the moment and does what she likes. Her inspiration comes from the world around her, from the small everyday things she encounters or from her imagination. Her works are by nature investigative and experimental, especially in terms of colors, which she combines harmoniously. At first, she may have a strong vi-sion, but along the way the feeling and energy may take her in a different direction as new ideas emerge. She paints both figuratively and abstractly, using acrylic paints and other materials. She often works on several paintings at once to keep the flow moving.
With World War II, abstract art – and in particular the art of Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) – was seen by the Nazi regime as degenerate art and became a victim of censorship. The artwork Factory is an example of abstract art: it has no reference to reality. The canvas is divided into six differently sized panes, each with a different atmosphere outcome of the prevailing colors. Common denominator is this bright red spray that has a vertical course and seems to connect the six panes together. A different work of art is Bouquet in shadow, another acrylic on canvas in which the color red - in this case of flowers - prevails and in which the background is gray with green hues at the bottom. Here the artist followed the creative flow by letting instinct guide her. Finally with Dancing in color we have before us a dancer dressed in an orange bodice and a wide skirt consisting of numerous circles of different colors. One of these is repeated in her hair, the typical ballet dancer's bun. The same freedom with which the ballerina moves during her dance is found by Catrine Lindström during her creative act.