Welcome to a world of nature, inner landscapes and glimmers.

Nina Johansson is a Swedish artist and freeride painter based in the Stockholm archipelago. Her layered mixed-media paintings move between abstraction and recognition, drawing on mountains, forests, water and organic forms as both outer and inner landscapes.

She approaches painting much as she approaches freeride skiing: with curiosity, presence and a willingness to read the terrain rather than follow a fixed route. Layers are built, erased, revealed and redirected. Forms emerge, dissolve and sometimes become something entirely unexpected.

Her work is rooted in contrasts she returns to again and again: stillness and movement, freedom and belonging, the wild and the grounded, strength and vulnerability.

Gold, pink and unexpected flashes of colour carry something else through the work: wonder. Nina is drawn to glimmers, those fleeting moments when light, nature, colour or movement suddenly sharpen our sense of being alive.

For her, nature is not simply a subject to paint. It is a place of perspective, freedom, grounding and connection.

Paintings where nature meets the inner landscape.
Art for a life full of wonder.

Utbildning
Creative Role Models
Grandmother Alva, a creative by heart, seamstress - who told magic stories, baked gingerbread cookies with a splash of whiskey and sewed exquisite, fashion-forward doll clothes for me and my cousin

Grandmother Dagmar, who loved the mountains and forests and shared her sense of wonder with us grandchildren, over hidden patches of chanterelles, blooming globeflowers, the winter sun warming our faces and orange breaks in snowy landscapes

Utställningar
2026 May - Vaxholm Spring Salon (Vårsalongen)
Roddarhuset

2025 October - Solo exhibition Glimmers at Galleri Våning 25, DN-skrapan, Stockholm

2025 May - Vaxholm Spring Salon (Vårsalongen) Roddarhuset,