Akvarellen - Jacqueline Stare 2010 nr 4

...Chinese and Japanese art has fascinated us in Europe for centuries. Carmen Lindahl has always been captivated by the Chinese art, as far as motifs as well as the handicraft is concerned. In her graphic sheets – which come in two different formats – she has done her utmost to bring forward the contrasts between the blackness and the white paper. The next step was to paint, with Chinese watercolours, which have a special kind of pigment, on a number of the graphic sheets and then in the work with these colours to lay herself close to the character of the Chinese painting. In these pictures she has wanted to explore how she harmoniously will be able to combine her own motifs with the forms of expression of many hundred years of a quite different culture so that her own pictures get a genuine expression...