Rune Jansson was born in 1918 in Sweden.

Swedish painter, graphic artist and writer Rune Jansson grew up on Blidö in the Stockholm archipelago. With fantastic expanses outside the window, Jansson was early inspired by the power and colors of nature and felt a strong drive to recreate this through his art.

In 1941 he started at Otte Sköld's painting school in Stockholm, leaving behind agriculture, fishing and carpentry work at Blidö. The studies then continued at the Stockholm School of Art and he debuted for the Swedish audience at the Lilla Paviljongen in 1949.

The barren archipelago with knotty pine trees, round-cut mountains and icy blue seas is the very center of Rune Jansson's visual world. Water lines moving towards the horizon are commonly found on his canvases, often changing in color and contrasting with musty tones in orange, green, red or yellow.

In informal art he became a foreground figure and came through his close friendship with the artist Hans Hartung to develop it in Sweden. When Rune Jansson and his then wife Eddie Figgie visited France, they came into contact with this direction, which was characterized by a relaxation and lack of direct image idea.

"Dreamy landscape views and playfully improvised non-figurative compositions" describes his painting from the 1950s. Rune Jansson is currently represented at the Kalmar Art Museum and the Modern Museum in Stockholm, for example.

Rune Jansson passed away in 2014.