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Christian Koivumaa

Christian Koivumaa is a watercolor artist with roots in Tornedalen and now active in Katrineholm in Södermanland. With a sure hand, he depicts beautiful light and fairy-tale atmospheres in his watercolor paintings, often with the different playful shapes of the peculiar Nordic light as a common thread. We viewers are invited to wander for a moment in wonder among the city's warming streets and under the play of light of the northern lights over the northern mountain regions. In Christian Koivumaa we see a potentially timeless artist who with both feeling and technical skill depicts our time and at the same time manages to capture the eternal.

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An invitation to marvel at the Nordic light

Christian Koivumaa is a master of watercolor. With a steady hand, he captures some of the most elusive things – the play of shadows on sun-warmed city streets, the mysterious northern lights over the tops of the spruce forests, and the magnificent expanses of the northern mountains.

If you look closer, you discover a depth of longing, details that only rest for a moment – ​​captured on paper with precision, emotion and stillness.

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A difficult-to-master technique that inspires wonder

Watercolor is one of the most unpredictable mediums – fluid, delicate and fast. Christian Koivumaa masters the technique with rare precision, especially in the demanding “wet-on-wet” method.

The Northern Lights are a recurring motif, laden with personal meaning. For Koivumaa, they reflect the magic of childhood in Tornedalen – a landscape where fairy tales and reality seem to meet.

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From elite athlete to watercolor master

As an elite karate athlete, Christian Koivumaa collected nine Finnish championship titles before an injury ended his career. In his search for a new form of expression, he found watercolor painting – a technique that requires the same focus, discipline and presence as elite sports.

With a background in the national team and lifelong training in patience, he is now mastering a new arena: art.

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About Gallery Melefors

Johan Melefors, born 1971, founder and CEO of Galleri Melefors, grew up in a family that is the third generation in the auction and antiques industry. Already during his childhood, Johan developed an interest in art and since the early 1990s has collected and traded classic, modern and contemporary art. He started Galleri Melefors in Linköping in 2013 when he moved home from Stockholm to his birthplace of Linköping, which he felt lacked an art store and gallery with a breadth of established collector's art and a well-thought-out and future-oriented contemporary catalog to display.

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