Africa Coll

‘I get motivated when I observe my surroundings, especially nature. Nature has everything that touches me, all allegories through all time.
To express, visualize, materialize all states with nature as a starting point.
I get inspired when I observe and, without thinking, get an impression.
I do not paint to express myself, but to maintain a state that I can continue to experience. I want that which attracts me, what inspires me and that through observation takes me somewhere else. Art is my way of capturing it. Without shapes or details, because it is the whole that appeals to me. And everything is made of shapes and colors. I want to capture the invisible and formless that makes me feel those states.
I often use texts in my paintings, where I tell countless stories about this world that is mine and no one else's.'

Africa Coll is a Spanish artist based in Sweden since 2001. She lives and has her studio outside Lidköping, Västra Götaland.

Painting constitutes the basis of her art, but she also works with photography, video, and installations.
The different techniques and materials are parts of a process led by curiosity through experimentation and in-depth study.
With her work she wants to achieve different states, but at the same time it is important not to stay at the same point. Art is a way to move on, to discover, to have no boundaries. Among other things, light-sensitive processes such as cyanotype and wet collodion can be integrated into her paintings.

The motifs in Africa's work are often based on her fascination with nature and our relationship to the landscape, to time, and to the different layers of reality.

Her work is exhibited in Sweden and abroad.  Recently, her activity has also included public art commissions and installations in the landscape.