Nordic Watercolour 2025  

Frederikshavn Art Museum Denmark

Welcome to the opening on 13th September 

The exhibition may be seen until 25th October 2025.

 

I am participating with my image “Is på stenstrand”

 

I have been accepted to an exhibition that will take place on the University of Alaska-Fairbanks College of LIberal Arts website in October 20-31, 2025

How does dis/comfort materialize in the North?Through a call for submissions and by invitation, dis/comfort asks how Northern identity, colonialism, and climate change can be imagined and interpreted through layers of comfort and discomfort. Artists share encounters and intimacies with the North through video, photography, carving, embroidery, an interactive card game, a protest poem, and two-dimensional works printed on photo transparencies. A range of experiences and stories unfold, asking viewers to consider their own comfort and reflect on the broader contexts of how dis/comfort shapes living in and visiting the North.

 

 “Frozen Waves” – My contribution to the exhibition

 

 

New course in watercolor on 29 – 31 August 2025

 

Solo exhibition Kramfors Art Gallery 30/11 2024

 

2024 10^th International Watercolour Biennial, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania

           

Once again I participate in the Baltic Bridges Biennial in Kaunas Lithuania. it opens on 11/7 2024. I am showing three pictures from a residency in northern Iceland in March 2023.

I’m posting here a link to Laura Kroeker’s Instagram page Mel_lif_lu_ous. We met at the Nes Artist Recidency in Iceland in March 2023. Laura, who is a musician, started a collaboration with us other participants, as a starting point for her music. We represented various artistic expressions such as painting, sculpture, video art, book publishing and poetry. The result is this album Spákonufell where she used my picture as the cover. Click on the link and you can read about her thoughts on our collaboration.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2DbZzsOPKj/?igsh=MWcxNmV3d3kydmlsMA==

 

Solo Exhibition, Galleri 159 Svenskär 1  – 26 July 2023

Saturdays and Sundays 11.00 – 15.00, Wednesdays 15.00 – 19.00

 Yes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd Island 2 – 30 Mars 2023

Solo Exhibition Härnösands Konsthall September 2022

XXV European Watercolour symposium, ECWS, Bilbao Espania 2022

                 

2nd Biennial International Watercolour Art Exhibition, Coquelles, France,
April 2022

Winterlandscape – One of my paintings in Coquelles

Konstrundan Älv & Kust Kristi Himmelsfärdsdag
26 Maj 2022, 11.00 – 17.00

Nordens Lys, Dronninglund Kunstcentre, Denmark, September 2021

Snowy winter – One of my paintings in Dronninglund

Recension in the Danish art magazin Kunstavisen:

“Svenske Lena Johansson Fahlen (född 1951) mestrer en teknik, som helt enestående får landskapet til att vibrere. Man befinder sig i naturen på fjeldet eller blandt de snedækkede hvide birketræer. Øjebliksindtryk, som siden bliver tolket frit i atelieret. Det är smukke og meget intense naturgengivelser fra Norrland.”

“Swedish Lena Johansson Fahlen (born 1951) masters a technique that uniquely makes the landscape vibrate. You are in nature on the mountain or among the snow-covered white birch trees. Instant impressions, which are later interpreted freely in the studio. It is beautiful and very intense nature reproductions from Norrland.” (Translated)

   

Exhibition Stallarholmens Art Gallery, Sweden Opening 14th Mars- 26th
April 2020

Shadows – one of my paintings in Stallarholmen