Born 1970 in Antwerpen, Belgium. Lives in Stockholm, SE. At an early stage in her artistic career, after a period of abstract miniature flower paintings, Astrid Sylwan discovered Per Kirkeby’s monumental dynamic and abstract paintings. These works represented an approach that matched her own ambition entirely, while the genre itself had historically been dominated by men. Hence, her paintings were initially characterised by a “girl power” attitude, replete with bright pinks and reds and provocative titles. Since then, her approach, her colour scale and the titles of her works have changed. Sylwan has found her own idiom, the colours often alluding to nature, and the poetic titles that complement the paintings referring to an experience or phase in the process of creating the works.