Daniel Jensen was born in Malmö, Sweden, in 1972, studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and currently lives in Stockholm. He began working with figuration, which he then gradually abandoned, leaving aside the figures and instead shifted his focus to the details in the background, enlarging small non-figurative shapes and lines. He works with soft pastel and charcoal on raw canvas, which allows him a greater speed and fluidity – compared to paint – while demonstrating a strong link to drawing and sketching.

Jensen thinks of his paintings as moving images, where the different elements such as line and color are not static but relate to each other like transforming objects in distorted images. He works intuitively, adapting fluidly to the unforeseen events of the artistic process and time. His works are close to a moment of experience, of vision, an evolving image that he tries to capture. Daniel seeks a composition that makes the viewer react, inviting him to transit through his universe and to dialogue with his emotions through an exquisite chromatic selection of colors.