Linn Olofsdotter is a women of many talents which she has applied, not just in her art but made them ready for commercial use in Levi designs, Gap t-shirt logos and CD covers to name a few. She has a very fresh style using bright neon colourssometimes juxtaposed with very dull backdrops, like in my selected group of pictures. The attributes of the figures stand out due to the inky green and brown backdrop that they are swimming through.
The contents of her work can seem very natural, she uses themes of nature and animal life but stuffs her designs full of patterns made up from similar materials, yet they explode of the page, quite literally. The first image is of a merwomen slouching somehow gracefully across a dim sky, her tail extending across the page nearly four times as long as her torso. Unlike other surreal work, Olofsdotter’s use the human body is not shocking in it manipulation but fanciful in its composition. The lack of faces, or just single features, draws similarities from early surreal work with distorted facial expressions and combinations of eyes or appendages.
I plan to keep a close eye on Olofdotters work, because as she becomes more commercial with applications of her artwork she loses a bit more of the unusual or uncanny theme, which makes surrealism surreal.
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