Musician (gift)
Everyone needs a carrot sometimes
Music in the open air. The notes represent the owner's initials (gift)
Here are four pictures, which I made with love for our children.
Each picture has a special connection to the recipient. While the wool hairs were added to the panel, I have recalled many episodes from their abdolescence. I am so grateful to God for giving us such wonderful children!
When Elin turned 23 she got this picture.
The motif is taken from our house in Hanaberg in Stigsjö, outside Härnösand. The Blackbird family, who live in the large rowan, symbolize our family. The furthest nestling's head and back contour is of Elin's hair, cut when she was seven years old.
This is Jenny's gift on her 27th birthday.
The view is from a croft in Hanaberg. The pet dog Condesa (Dessan) is present in three places: In the meadow (brown and white), in the birch bark and sitting in the foreground with dandelions in front of her (green with contour of a long light hair loop, which Jenny accidentally tore off when she got too close to boys fighting at school).
Daniel got this motif on his 31st birthday.
When he was a little boy we lived in Viksmon for two and a half years, quite close to this lake, Lake Graninge. The four pine trees symbolize our children. Daniel liked to play Indian as a little guy. Therefore, the second number starts from the right with an Indian boy at the bottom of the trunk. That Daniel is now an adult man is evident from the size of the tree. The Indian boy's hair came from Daniel's boy's head.
For Peder's 40th birthday, this painting was completed.
The motif is taken from Peder's play "The Red Czar", which was played in beautiful nature in Albacken, Jämtland.
The actors consisted of people from the neighbourhood. Peder is sitting in the foreground.
Some pictures with Christian content
Quench my thirst
The straight-flying dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
Summer prayer
Behind the flowers can be seen my sister's clasped hands. She and I grew up in a believing home and we learned to pray to God in all the situations of life. We learned that He hears our prayers and answers.
The wild pansies stand for love to our native place in Angermanland. (Gift)
The migratory birds
The picture is about the song "The migratory birds". It is God's people who are likened to migratory birds. This is the content of the song:
As the summer turns to autumn,
then the row of migratory birds gathers.
They are longing for warmer countries
with springy green leaves.
Chorus:
One day, thousands of wings will lift
for far multi-mile travel
and the migratory birds will be swinging
to the south, towards a warmer world.
They know that when the summer cools down,
then the moment of the break is at hand They know that when the autumn storm is approaching
Then a warmer grove is awaiting.
The people of God are like the crowds of migratory birds.
They are waiting for the moment of the break.
They are waiting for God's summer the clear
there high above all the worlds.
One day, thousands of wings will lift
for the remote distance
and the migratory birds will be swinging
to heaven, God's eternal world.
Tr. U.F.
Security in God's hand
The sun is a symbol of God.
The cloud and the hand form the symbol "God's strong hand".
The evening hymn "Spread Your Wide Wings" has inspired the big wing.
The red vertical line, on the far right, links to the blood, which the Israelites strove on the doorposts to be saved. In the New Testament, blood is a picture of salvation.
The child in the center tells about the security in God's hand.
Associations and memories
When good friends of ours would move to Norway, they ordered a picture, where some components would be included:
A figure of Christ
The three crosses found in the fund at Pentecostal church in Falkenberg - their home congregation
The symbol of the Holy Spirit - the dove with a cross glory in its beak
Folded hands - prayer
Genista pilosa - Halland's landscape plant
Honeysuckle
Water - Falkenberg is a coastal town
Rapids (rapids) and a mountain to link to my surname (Forsberg).
Prayer
The symbol "God's hand"
People of different skin colors are united in prayer to God.
Is it at YOUR heart he stands?
Jesus stands at the heart gate and wants to come in. But the door opens from the inside.
The lily of the valley in the foreground is the symbol of "Jesus' coming and the salvation of the world" and that's exactly the theme here.
This picture has similar motifs as one in the Lina Sandell series, but this one is flipped and slightly changed. I made it a woman who absolutely wanted to buy the picture that was included in the series. Since it was not for sale, she agreed that I could make the same motif but changed.
Jesus Institutes the Lord’s Supper
I exhibited this painting in a themed exhibition at Tullbro Church in Falkenberg during Easter 2026. Eleven artists each contributed one work of art under the theme “The Easter Journey.” My assignment was to depict “Jesus Institutes the Lord’s Supper.”
My composition is based on symbols. Jesus’ body is “constructed” from the Greek letter X (see below). Beside Jesus is the Greek letter Rho (Ρ), which resembles the letter P in the Latin alphabet. Its upper curve encloses Jesus’ head, represented by the sun.
The disciples are depicted as stalks of grain. Not all of them fit within the composition. The viewer is invited to imagine the room extending beyond the picture, where the remaining disciples are gathered and where the dining table is also likely to be.
Jesus Institutes the Lord’s Supper
Jesus and the disciples eat the Passover lamb in the “Upper Room” in Jerusalem. It is evening, and the sun is setting. Jesus stands in front of the window, holding the basket with the bread of the Lord’s Supper and the cup of wine. He offers the basket of bread to the disciples, after blessing it and breaking it into pieces, and says, “Take and eat. This is my body, which is given for you.” Then, holding the cup, he gives thanks to God and says, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. Take it and share it among yourselves. Do this in remembrance of me whenever you celebrate the Lord’s Supper.”
Jesus, at the center of the composition, is symbolized by the Greek letters XP, representing the first two letters of the Greek word Christos (“Christ”). His garments are draped to follow the shape of the X, although its upper part has been extended in an unusual way. You can discover the X by following the purple contour line from Jesus’ left arm (holding the cup) up to his neck and then down to the hem of his tunic on the right side. The second part of the X runs from his right arm up to his neck and, partly concealed by the cloak, diagonally down to the hem on the left.
The white tunic symbolizes purity, holiness, and righteousness. The blue cloak evokes heaven, the divine, and Jesus’ faithfulness. The P (outlined in purple) stands beside Jesus. Its rounded upper part frames the sun, which at the same time forms Jesus’ head. Just as the day is drawing to a close and the sun is setting, so too is Jesus’ earthly life approaching its end.
Jesus’ disciples are symbolized by stalks of wheat, rye, oats, and barley. Just as different grains grow under different conditions, possess different characteristics, and vary in appearance, so too the disciples differ in their human and spiritual qualities. Not all of the disciples, nor the dining table, are visible in the composition. The viewer is invited to imagine that they are located farther inside the room, beyond the boundaries of the painting.