Inge Schiöler's paintings leave no one indifferent. With a phenomenal feeling for color effect and design, he has been loved by the art audience for more than half a century. Few have any idea of the mental illness that afflicted the artist at the age of twenty-five, and which came to shape his entire artistry.

Already at an early age, Schiöler began to paint, and was first accepted at the Handicraft Association's school, and at the age of 18 at Valands in Gothenburg, where he together with i.a. Ragnar Sandberg and Ivan Ivarson studied under Tor Bjurström. The color lyrical Bjurström's expression, with an intense color language in a summarily reproduced form, became dominant for this generation of artists, who later came to go by the collective name Göteborgskoloristerna.

During the early 1930s, Inge Schiöler lived for a time in Stockholm where he studied for Bror Hjort, but was sent home to Strömstad on her sister's advice when she felt that not everything was right with her brother's health. His mental state deteriorated considerably, and in 1933 he destroyed all the paintings in his studio in Strömstad City Hall. In the same year, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and moved to St. Jörgen's mental hospital in Gothenburg.

Here he came to be cared for from and to for 27 years, until 1960. After the first nine years of total inactivity in the hospital, Schiöler began to make simple drawings in 1942. In the following years, his health gradually improved and during the late 1940s. the artistic activity resumed considerably. Through good sales at Galerie God Konst in Gothenburg, Schiöler became more established at the checkout, and in 1956-57 the family was able to build a cottage for him at Sydkoster.

The house became crucial both for Schiöler's social rehabilitation and a fixed point for his artistic activities. The encounter with Sydkoster was redemptive for Schiöler's art, and his colorful paintings taken from the island's barren but captivating nature shine with life and longing. In his paintings from the late 1950s and early 60s, a new glow and newfound love of nature and freedom are found. The colors of nature were performed in 1959, a time when Schiöler, thanks to medication, was able to absorb nature and life in a new way.

His euphoric feeling in this color explosion is immediate and disarming. It is as if the artist wants to capture life, happiness, and that the surrounding nature helps him along the way. The colors are clean, almost fluorescent and richly varied. Here he catches them just as they come out of the color tube; ultramarine is mixed with emerald green, bright violet mixed with bright orange and crimson.

The enormous size of the painting can only be measured by the motif's color saturation, which together create a color tone and image experience of unusual richness. The colors of nature strike the viewer with full force and remain on the retina long after the gaze has left the image surface.

Inge Schiöler was a Swedish artist who grew up on the west coast and had a love for nature. He studied at Valand's painting school in Gothenburg and became part of the Gothenburg colorists. Schiöler was recognized for his ability to use color and depict the interplay of tones in his paintings. He was most impressed by the expressionist movement and his paintings often depicted landscapes in clear and fresh tones. Schiöler was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 25 and spent 27 years at St. Jörgen's clinic outside Gothenburg. He continued to paint during his time there, often capturing the view from his window or painting scenes from his travels to the coast. In the early 1960s, Schiöler was discharged and lived the rest of his life on Sydkoster. He is widely known as one of the west coast's great colorists and his paintings are highly sought after on the market.