“I tried things I wouldn’t have done as an artist, including experimenting with colours I wouldn’t have imagined using just a year ago, ” she shared.
However, her latest series incorporates various hues of blue, a colour which she had long avoided as she associated it with danger. She was able to ride out the first MCO in March 2020 but the second one in January this year proved more emotionally challenging.“It brought a lot of frustration into my work and that’s how blue came in, ” Ekeblad said of her latest pieces.It opened last week at G Art Gallery in G Hotel Gurney. Another signature of her paintings is the incorporation of old music manuscripts.
“I’ve always loved music. I hear it everywhere. When I paint outdoors at a botanic garden, a slight breeze coming through would turn bamboo into drums and leaves into flutes in my head.