Hjördis Haack was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and graduated in 1983 from the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts. Hjördis Haack talks about his art: In my artistic work, I work mostly with painting. I work purely in terms of painting technique based on the figurative tradition. From a certain distance, my paintings are almost photographic, but at a closer distance you can clearly see the work of the hand. One of the recurring themes in my paintings is the concrete painting versus the representational. I often work with the white surface of the canvas together with the figurative motif. The paintings take on more of the character of object painting.