CARMEN LINDAHL

Born in Spain in 1956, raised in Paris, Carmen later moved to Sweden and then Luxemburg. There she had her first artistic schooling at l’ Ecole des Beaux Arts and painted for local artists. Moving to Paris again she was accepted at “Salon des Indépendants” in 1991.

Settling in Stockholm in 1994 she continued with oil painting but also worked with prints, Chinese ink, sculpture and watercolour, studying for several Swedish artists. Being a member of the Co-operative Artist’s Workshop in Nacka, outside Stockholm, gave access to hardware to broaden her scope.

Exhibitions included galleries in Sweden, Spain and Greece. Admitted to the Swedish

Artists’ Association in 2001, she received the Members’ award in 2006. She represented the Nordic Watercolour Society at an international watercolour biennial in Italy and was chosen to participate at the City of Stockholm Art Gallery (“Liljevalchs”) traditional spring show in 2009. Carmen’s lithographs were selected for the 7th International Print Symposium in Tidaholm, Sweden in 2015. Her works have been acquired by Swedish towns, private collectors, companies and corporate art associations.

As from 2016 Carmen lives in Menton, France with her studio in the old town. She has since exhibited in nearby towns, in Monaco, Stockholm, Paris, Venice, London and online. This spring, her works are shown in Nice at the Galerie des Dominicains. The exhibition focuses on floral motives and different ways of approaching them. The snowberries and magnolia motives that dominate the show are firstly in the form of oil paintings made with knife on linen canvas. Chinese ink paintings are a source of inspiration, the brush strokes are a testimony of that. Secondly, Carmen has made stone prints with the same motives, using 300 gram Velin paper adding ink and water colour.

She is also showing multicolour lithographs, traditional watercolours and watercolours much inspired by Asian technique. Carmen has been described by the Swedish art historian Göran Ståhle as an artist that never stops reinventing herself. This is a challenge for the artist and maybe also for the audience, you never know what to expect next. As mentioned, her several techniques have allowed her to change between sculpturing, painting and printing. Now she is digging into yet another way of working; oil painting on paper mounted on linen canvas covered with resin. The motives are vegetal. They will be shown at the Menton exhibition hall in 2025.

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