Bo Markenholm is a Swedish artist, born 1964, based in Tommarp (in southern Sweden). His paintings in oil and acrylic are characterized by seemingly simple compositions, executed in a clear realistic style, where the interaction between light and shadow is in focus. The subjects are often still life with fruit motifs, but also fragments of the cityscape or nature. His aim is to “create life on a canvas, projecting the atmosphere and finding an expression for it. My own”. He grew up in a family interested in the arts, encouraging his diligent drawing. In his teens he began painting in oil, inspired by the Impressionists and abstract expressionism. He was also fascinated by photo-realism and technically driven artists. After a B.A. in Art History at the University of Lund and various artistic courses he eventually came to work as an illustrator and portrait artist, using pencils and airbrush. After some years, and over a thousand portraits, he decided in the early 2000s to devote himself entirely to his art – and that it was realism that would be his way of expression. Since then he has had several exhibitions, solo or in group – most in Sweden but also in France, Denmark and USA.
