Sandra Hultsved is a self-taught artist born 1989 in the deep forests of Sweden. She creates her art mainly using oils, graphite pencils and ink, capturing the tragedy and melancholy in a beautiful way. With influences from both the old master’s classical techniques and the modern dark art movement, combined with her own imagination and experimentation with mediums.

She is no stranger to portray themes such as mental health and death. After years of fighting depression, her art has become a way of expressing herself and relate to the world around her.

Nature – particularly the forests of Värmland, where she grew up, is always a huge source of inspiration. The forest is her safe haven to which she flees to endure a little bit longer. The same goes for her art.

Several of her latest works depict a dystopia of the future, where she portrays the reality of life in a macabre way. She wants to question how we live today, how we overconsume and exploit the planet. And she believes that the earth will remain, but not us humans, this will be our legacy. “Memento Mori – remember that you will die, or rather, remember that you are not immortal.”

She has been exhibiting her work all over the world, co-founded Memento Tea Gallery in 2018 and also holds courses in realistic drawing.