Swedish artist Jesper Nyrén has spent two decades trying to do what few painters can: translate the elusive softness of Nordic light into colour alone. We visit his Stockholm studio – and follow his process on film – to see how memory, material and meticulous observation shape his abstract landscapes
To understand how these pared-back paintings come into being, it helps to see Nyrén at work. Here, Vogue Scandinavia spends a morning inside his Södermalm studio, where the artist moves methodically between canvases, testing colour combinations, adjusting surfaces and talking through the decisions that never quite end.
The film captures the intensity of his process: the pauses, the revisions, the way one hue is nudged slightly warmer or cooler until it finally clicks. Watching Nyrén work brings clarity to what his paintings suggest: that Nordic light is something captured patiently, layer by layer.
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