ROLAND
ELF - Paintings and drawings.
Welcome
to my webpage. I am from Sweden.
Here are
some of my paintings and drawings.
I work in oil, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and mixed techniques.
* Influences. I'm
influenced mainly by the figurative and realistic art from 14th
century renaissance to present realistic painters. I'm also
influenced by Native American Indian art.
One of my favourite painters is Andrea Del Sarto who lived in
Florence (14-1530).
* Photo of
me at Ingapirca in Ecuador, an old Inca site. Ingapirca is in a
very beautiful place high up in the Andes. Ingapirca was built by
Huayna Capac more than 500 years ago.
* Studies.
I have studied traditional realistic drawing and painting at the
Florence Academy of art in Italy in 1998 and 1999.
* Exhibitions. Have participated in exhibitions in Sweden:
Jönköping, Visingsö, Nässjö, Eksjö, Örebro, Gothenburg,
and two student exhibitions in Florence, Italy.
* Book illustration. In 1997, I did illustrations -paintings and
drawings for a book by Kenneth Dinér, the name of the book in
Swedish is "Levande ursprung-indianska myter, dikter och
sånger" . The book is mainly in Swedish, but also have some
text in English. Translated into English the title is
"Living origin-Native American Indian myths, poems and
songs". That was very exiting to do and illustration is
something I want to do more.
* Travelling. In 1998, I
travelled for two months in Southamerican: Ecuador, Peru and
Chile. We visited a Quichua-indianvillage, in the rainforest of
Ecuador, among other places. In Chile I was a guest at an Mapuche
Indian family, their home is in the mountains, in the southern
part of Chile. A very beautiful place with primeval forests. in
this place they still speak the Mapuche language Mapudungun. Mapu
means earth and Che means people. I've done drawings and
paintings influenced by their culture. The cultures of the Native
American People is one of my sources of inspiration for my
paintings and drawings. I'm especially interested in the Native
American Peoples Cultures in present time.
* You are welcome to
contact me, if you want to have a portrait painting. I also want
to have illustration commissions. Contact me if you want some of
my paintings and drawings for postcard, book or CD cover.
* I'm interested to have
contact with an art gallery, if you have information send me an
email.
* Email Address: roland_elf@hotmail.com
Some of my favourite artists in music
Rich Hopkins, who with his band did two
fantastic concerts in my hometown in 2000, see Evert Wysell's homepage for more information about Rich
Hopkins and Neil Young.
Donnette Thayer (Artist with a wonderful voice).
Ulali. First
nations women acapella trio whom
has worked with Robbie Robertson among others.
The Beatles (also as solo artists).
Claudia Martínez, Mexican singer who sing in Maya
Tzotzil, Nahuatl languages and other languages of Mexico.
Beautiful music.
Norte Potosi from Bolivia, they sing in Quechua, today a big
language in the north-west of the Andes and was the big language
during the Inca period. "Lo mejor de Norte Potosi" is a
very good album.