Stories
Turning a simple bowl into a ritual vessel makes an everyday object a threshold where colour, attention and symbolic language meet. Its open centre can hold…
Astrology can give an artist a rich symbolic language for choosing subjects, colours and emotional atmospheres. A natal chart may become a map of recurring…
A mask can serve as a threshold between the everyday world and an imagined realm of ritual, myth and spiritual authority. Painted features may suggest…
Aether is the luminous, elusive element traditionally placed beyond earth, air, fire and water. In Imelda Almqvist’s shamanic paintings, it becomes a visual…
Water has always carried more than a physical body from one place to another. In myth, a river can divide the living from the dead, wash away memory, guard…
Night visions arrive without appointment. A coastline may become a temple, a familiar face may carry an unknown message, and an ordinary room can open into a…
A mantra begins as vibration: a syllable carried on the breath, repeated until its meaning moves beyond ordinary language. When translated into painting, that…
A pilgrimage is a movement through landscape, memory and meaning. It may lead to a famous shrine, an ancient track, a river bend or a place encountered in a…
Ash has a quiet visual power. It carries the memory of fire, the evidence of loss, and the possibility of renewal. In painting and mixed media, its soft grey,…
Wind cannot be held in the hand, yet it shapes dunes, bends grass, carries birds across oceans and changes the mood of a landscape within minutes. Painting it…