Tommy TC Carlsson is a Swedish artist who paints in oil with a distinctive trompe-l`oeil effect, embracing hyperrealism, minimalism and Scandinavian flair. Tommy Carlsson was born in 1958 in a small village in the south of Sweden. A painter and a graphic artist, he now lives in Långasjö (Småland) and Stockholm. In 1977 Tommy has graduated from Öland’s School of Art, where he developed a passion for the extravagant still life techniques of the Dutch masters of the 16th and the 17th centuries. Since 1981, Tommy’s thought-provoking, poignant yet meditative work has been showcased at 130 solo and collective exhibitions, which were held throughout Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England and USA. Her watercolours are charming and quirky works that reflect and satirise everyday human emotions. Emotional motifs such as loneliness and craving for love, social vulnerability, the joy of belonging, independence and discrete cries for help are all situations and states that Stenlander’s characters find themselves in. The stylized world of Stenlander’s art is quintessentially female and revolves around the artist’s alter ego – a sympathetic, plump, middle-aged woman who engages in daydreaming, contemplating and pondering. Larissa employs symbolism in the same way as the 17th century Dutch masters did in their vanitas. Every single detail carries a certain meaning, is necessary and is positioned accordingly. The emotional charge of Larissa’s paintings is enhanced by the frank, finely chiseled and minimalist imagery. Larissa’s stripped mise-en-scènes account for an independent vision and for the artist’s very own development of a traditional genre painting.