My 10 year old daugther is convinced that the blood that runs in my veins is rainbow colored, and that might be some truth in that. 

I have been creative all my life and already as a 2 year old I was painting in rainbowcolors and I feel I belong to the magic of rainbowland, which you clearly can see in my artwork today.

I grew up in the north of sweden, surrounded with creative women and my biggest source of inspiration was my grandmother that was a full time artist and storyteller.

As a little person I was creative and sensitive. The veil between this and other worlds was thin, and I often saw things others did not. No one ever told me I was strange or that this was not real. I was allowed to be me just as I am. This was one of the most prescious gifts I can imagine, being allowed to be me, and this has formed me to who I am today.

I was always creative growing up, but I never went to artschool and this was for a long while something I felt was a mistake not choosing that road. Today I am glad I didnt. 

The creative calling in my life took its own path, and what I am happy about is that I always kept the door open for painting from my inner realms, rather than trying to depict something in a realistic way. 

In my mid 20s I found Ängsbacka, a community in Sweden, that came to be my second home. Here I got the opportunity to explore both my inner realms, my creativity and also meeting people from all over the world with the same longing, to go deep, to be real and to grow as human beings. 

I had some years of not painting much after high school when all my artwork was burnt in a fire in our house, although I was always in creative projects, 2004 was the year I started to paint again, and now came fairytale like creatures from the portal of my heart, I called them filurer. 

Around  2005 I started to sell my artwork and paint personal filur-paintings for children. This came to lead to a inspirational carddeck that was published 2012.

2012 my beloved daughter was born, my most beautiful creation.

In 2014 I took a yearlong zen coaching training, that is a tool I still use in my everyday life, also in the painting process. 

2015 I was going through a separation and at the same time I found an amazing online course called Bloom true with Flora Bowley and this transformed my life in so many ways, I found a platform to allow and transform all the difficult emotions from the separation. This was a biggie for me, finding the strenght within and this through creativity, jay!

During the next  2 years I took every online course I could with Flora, and I started painting every day, every moment I could was devoted to creativiy. My artwork changed and blossomed and I started to sell more and more art. 

This made me quit the job I had and I decided to follow my heart fully . 

After theese three years of intense practise of art making, I felt the calling to share, and to find something to support me in teach this way of transformative art making and as I found Intentional creativity in the end of 2017 my soul was singing and after I did the first deep workshop called Legend, I knew I found what I was looking for. 

2019 I attended the Color of woman teacher training in intentional creativity and today I offer tranfsormational workshops in Sweden and abroad, one to one painting sessions, commissioned artwork and soon to come online courses. 

I live with my daughter in Järna, Sweden.

Bild: Iben Snebang