British artist Svante is an abstract expressionist known at home and abroad for his vibrant, colourful and often large-scale oil paintings. Following the completion of his studies at the Universities of Parma and Bologna in Emilia Romagna, Svante spent time in Florence where he met Silvio Loffredo, Professor
of art at the Accademia and a pupil himself of the Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka.

Together with Marco Sassone these artists formed part of Svante’s early influences. Initially focusing on rapid and often obscure figurative sketches which aimed to capture the essence of the individual in the context of a given time and emotional state, Svante eventually adopted oil paintings as his primary medium.
With a barrage of broad powerful brush strokes, scratches and gouges, dashes of charcoal and layer upon layer of thickly applied oil paint, Svante’s work creates a sense of immediacy which is both raw and inescapable. Heavily influenced by the psychoanalytical studies of Daniel Kahneman, Svante exposes the interplay between thinking systems one and two.

His creative process often involves the composition of a written stream
of subconscious alongside his oil paintings, a technique developed to enable the freeing of the mind and overcome the intimidation inherent in the blank canvas. The paintings and oil pastels contained herewith represent a body of work which is both journey of self-exploration and an observation of the contemporary human condition.