Cecilia Gunnarsson - As I See It

"Being immersed in the landscape, in the natural world, is essential to me. I feel the need to seek sanctuary in wild places - to reconnect to a sense of being the same as all living things. To remind myself that I am also a part of nature, no more, no less. In this body of work, I have painted the outback, mountains and the ocean."

Cecilia is an artist originally from Sweden. She grew up in a small country town where nature and the forest were always close. After half a lifetime in South Australia, its landscape is now also part of her with its smells and sounds, the colour and light, the seasons. Cecilia paints mainly in oils, expressing the light and form with patterns of colours and brushstrokes.