JENS MALMGREN I create.
Going Abstract
 The Wave

Fongerspad in Almere

This is a painting of the houses at Lake Weerwater in Almere. I don’t live in any of these flats but I come here two times per day when biking to and from work. The name in Dutch of this lake means “water again”. The reason for this name comes from that initially this place was Lake IJssel and then during the 1960s it got poldered and then this was land. To build the city massive amounts of sand had to be used to equalize the lake floor etc and that sand was taken from what was going to become this lake. Then there were water here again and hence the name “Water again”.

During 2010 I was almost obsessed about painting. This day in the summer was cloudy and actually not an ideal day to go out and paint outside but I had decided that whatever the result would be I had to be able to learn something from the exercise.
Arshak Makichyan, a Russian climate activist.Elliot Connor the conservationistFionnuala 19 AprilPortrait of Patsy on 11 April 2020Showing who I am is resistanceMaddy Anne, 11 March 2020View over the Storsjön lake in Jämtland, Sweden on 5 March 2020Deniz from IstanbulHollands landscapeStill life under lampOur future housePortrait of Helen Jackson from GlasgowStill life painting of vegetablesPortrait of Anna KernahanEmmanuel Niyoyabikoze from Greening Burundi

I moved from Sweden to The Netherlands in 1995.

Here on this site, you find my creations because that is what I do. I create.