Louisa Matthíasdóttir
“I start painting, and that’s about it”

At first, the blocky figures and flat colors that populate Louisa Matthíasdóttir’s paintings seem almost childlike, naive. But stay with them for a moment and a strange thing happens. The floor you're standing on drops out from under your feet, the air fills with the smell of saltwater and you are enveloped by the stillness of a quiet Icelandic afternoon.