Still Life with Shells was painted from life under natural light in the artist’s historic Amsterdam studio. Working directly from observation, the artist positioned the canvas beside a carefully arranged composition of shells, repeatedly stepping back to compare the painted image with the physical motif, before going back painting on the canvas. Through this attentive process, he achieves a harmonious unity in which individual details are subordinated to the integrity of the whole. The result is a work that conveys not only beauty, but also a profound sense of harmony and stillness.
Urban Larsson
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Educated in Florence, Italy, the Swedish born artist Urban Larsson (b. 1966) moved to Amsterdam in 1991. Striving for beauty and universal humanistic values, he paints only from life. Urban is an oil painter. whose work process and visual philosphy draws upon the painting traditions of the past. The majority of his portraits, landscapes and still-lifes can be found in private collections in Europe and the U.S.A. . His presigious portrait commissionions are international. He has for example painted the official portrait of HM Queen Silvia of Sweden and King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, but also HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. What sets Larsson apart from most other painters is that he also masters other genres, such as still-lifes, landscapes and figures. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and USA. In 2017 he had two retrospective exhibitions in prominent museums in Sweden and the Netherlands.
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