Artist Statement:
Bjorn Bengtsson, born in Mesa, Arizona 1999, is a painter whose practice is profoundly inspired by the vivid love light of God’s eternal Spirit over transient natural life. His work explores the impact of personal encounters with God on our relationship with a dying world, turning this world back to the original design of eternal glory and life in the garden of eden. Through elements of people, places, plant life, and light his paintings illuminate the underexposed hope of glory hidden within our daily living, and exciting the inspiring conviction of knowing life’s true eternal love light. Once given a good and new perception, our lives change for good.
Bengtsson animates the traditional balance of painting as being physically still but spiritually active, revealing God’s invisible attributes, namely eternal power and divine nature, having been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. He treats painting as a gifted state of being flowed through by the Spirit, using each stroke of paint as a revealing of luminous glory to illuminative glory, forming transformed people and places. Through layers of paint, what was, what is, and what is to come coalesces upon his canvases, creating opportunities for new life.
Bio:
Bjorn Bengtsson is a self taught painter living and painting in Mesa, Arizona, US. He graduated in 2022 from Arizona State University with a BFA in Philosophy and Studio Art; He now teaches painting at New School for the Arts in Tempe. He paints in this Life by the Light of Love.
God said to Him, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the them: `I AM has sent me to you. ‘”
I have come that they may have life, and have life to the full.
“In the wandering we find our way, not in the still sitting.”
“Love is the only endeavor.”
“Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.”
love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another
“Man himself is mute and it is the image that speaks. For it is obvious that the image alone can keep pace with nature.”
“The artist is deeply persuaded by the Divine necessity for life.”
Blessed are the Pure in Heart, for they see God.
All things were made by the Creator. In the Creator is life, the light of all creation. The Creator is the true light, who lights all creation.