“Few can, like Gerhard Nordström, capture the ever-changing nature. The tones are set according to seasons, weather and the rhythm of the day. Although he was just ninety years old, he still paints as if it were the first time he really saw. Experience is there of course, but attention is unabated. It does not matter that many of the motifs are well known. The look has the same sharpness, the brush the same will to reproduce the bark's roughness, or the foliage's high summer greenery. Equally complete, it is the closest to the joy of painting that determines. Although he is a master at urging the presence of a place, he never fully fulfills the illusion. Up close, the oil color prevails, creamy greasy or sticky. Always saturated with ...