Artists

Aya Sunga Askert

is a multidisciplinary artist who creates sculptures, assemblages, and ceramic arts. She also conveys her creative expression through poetry and draws inspiration from nature and life experiences. Aya’s art is a juxtaposition of whimsical and poetic elements.

Marj Assow

is an architect who used to live and work in Hong Kong before moving to Sweden in 2016 with her Swedish husband & son. She loves design and anything related to art. She likes to showcase society through colourful paintings. Family, friends, and pets are common features in her art. She likes to paint landscapes and portraits - often with a twist. Aside from painting, Marj is also an amateur song composer.

Emelia White Eklund

Emelia is a self-taught artist and a photography enthusiast. Her paintings vary from landscapes to abstract portraits. She loves being with nature and enjoys taking photos of flowers and places.

Ophelia  Casel Persson

 is a mixed-media artist who began polishing her talents with charcoal over a decade ago. She is able to communicate her feelings through her art. She believes it has no boundaries since it enables her to cultivate and transform mundane things into extraordinary ones.

Helen Svendgaard

is an artist and photographer who works on colorful abstract art. Her time in an art school in Manila introduced her to the world of colors, while Sweden awakened her love for photography. Her works convey a sense of life and happiness.  Most of her abstract paintings are sceneries of places she has seen and reflects motif shifts between impressionism and realism/naturalism.

Joel Bagon

is a fashion designer and a self-taught photographer based in Stockholm. His photography focuses on a variety of subjects, including nature, architecture, and people. He has an interest in interior design and loves gardening and cooking during his free time.

Irene Chua

Irene's inspiration for her body of work comes from a complex process of experiencing the world, processing her observations through daily quiet meditation and yoga, and applying her vision on canvas one brush stroke at a time. It’s a process requiring a deep love for the act of painting, quietness, endurance and skill.  Her work pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in the art world. Irene happily resides and paints in Stockholm, Sweden.

Marga Lacson

is a self-taught artist who has recently rediscovered her passion in the arts.  She has initially started with oil painting more than 10 years ago but mainly as a personal hobby. After joining the Filipino Artists Association in Sweden in 2018, she was motivated and inspired to unleash her creative side once again. Pouring out her soul, feeling the emotion and translating that into a canvas.

Molina Bansil Ohlsson

is an autodidact artist who uses watercolor and focuses on nature themes in her artworks. With her strong cultural origin and influence on her crafts; she utilized T'nalak, an ecological fabric made of hemp. She integrates her trinket creations with Helen Svendgaard’s oil paintings, in making her own design for women's jewelry.

Ledda P. Wallin

is a self-taught artist. She is a realist who began her art journey with watercolor and oil. Her style is innovative and varied, and travel influenced her art. Her early works were figurative, realistic, and abstract. Her mixed-media art used brilliant colors and varied in size. Leda was able to paint more than 1,000 works and had six solo displays in the Philippines.