About the artist
The artwork you see on my site is by Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint. Born in 1862, she was a formally trained painter whose art was deeply connected to her spiritual beliefs.
During her lifetime, she rarely exhibited her abstract work and even specified that it should not be shown until 20 years after her death — which came in 1944 — sensing, perhaps rightly, that the world wasn’t ready for what she had created.
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Hilma was ahead of her time.
Hilma was a spiritual seeker. In 1896, she formed a group with four other like-minded women called The Five. They met regularly to explore intuitive and spiritual creativity. Using practices similar to meditation or what Carl Jung later called active imagination, they would enter quiet, receptive states and allow images and ideas to emerge spontaneously through drawing and writing. They saw this as a way to access deeper wisdom — whether from within themselves or from a greater spiritual reality.
When a friend first introduced me to Hilma’s life and work, it resonated with me immediately. I’m not sure I can explain why — I just know that it does. I feel good when I look at her paintings. I feel hopeful. It’s like meeting a fellow traveler on this path of self-knowledge, awareness, and the desire to integrate all parts of oneself into a whole.
I hope you enjoy her work as much as I do. If you’d like to learn more or see her paintings in a fuller context, I invite you to visit the Hilma af Klint Foundation.