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.

Hjördis Haack working at her studio in Copenhagen.