artist 
statement

Camilla Näsholm is a painter from northern Sweden working primarily with large-scale abstract painting. Her work explores complex systems and the interdependent relationships within them. In her paintings, forms are rarely isolated; instead they dissolve, overlap, and emerge through their relationship to surrounding marks, colours, and movements.

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Underlying her interest in systems is a fascination with how similar patterns of organisation appear across vastly different scales, from microscopic structures to ecological systems. This recurring behaviour across different forms of life and matter continues to inform her exploration of how complex systems emerge, stabilise, destabilise, and reorganise. Recent work has increasingly focused on moments of instability, when existing structures begin to break apart and move towards new forms.

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This shift has led to a looser and more physical visual language. Working with thick layers of paint, bold colour relationships, and accumulating marks, she builds surfaces that are dense, tactile, and layered. Forms dissolve, collide, and re-emerge across the canvas, while colour carries much of the painting’s emotional charge. In this way, the material language of the work mirrors the systems and transformations it seeks to investigate.

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Process is at the centre of Näsholm’s practice. She is more interested in making than in final resolution and often experiences herself as an audience to her own paintings. Seeking to keep the work open to risk rather than control, she often works without preparatory sketches, allowing the painting to develop directly on the canvas and letting decisions emerge through action rather than planning.

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Originally trained in Industrial and Interaction design, she has maintained a painting practice for more than twenty years and has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Fine Arts at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University.