About CAMILLA HOWALT
ARTIST STATEMENT
CROSS-SECTIONS OF FRAGMENTED SENSUALITY - MAPPED, TRACED, AND UNFOLDED IN INTIMACY
Material Engagement
As a visual artist, I work across painting, drawing, textiles, and photography, weaving memory and image together from both observed and imagined landscapes. My practice explores the fluid nature of perception and the layered complexity of experience.
My work is driven by a desire to create space that honours difference without erasing it. Through tactile engagement with materials, I explore the thresholds between intimacy and distance, presence and absence.
Sensory Experience
Through painted or stitched surfaces, woven textures, and layered photographic transfers, shifting states of being are inscribed and dissolved. These tactile materials invite a bodily response, where touch becomes a quiet conduit for emotional resonance and connection.
Through my practice, I seek to evoke a sense of contemplation – inviting the viewer to engage with layered meanings that connect us to the world around us. Each trace, each gesture, reflects the quiet power of observation and offers a pause – a moment to witness the unfolding subtleties of life.
Camilla Howalt (b. 1968) is a Malmö-based artist working across painting, textiles, and photography. She graduated with First-Class Honours from Wimbledon School of Art and later completed an MA at Kingston University’s Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, establishing her studio practice in 2003.
Exploring the boundaries between abstraction and reality, her work blends traditional painting methods, photographic transfers, embroidery techniques, and digital processes. Drawing from her extensive travels across European, American, and African cultures, Camilla’s practice creates an interplay of technique, texture, and visual depth, merging abstraction and figuration.
Working within the tradition of painting while embracing contemporary approaches, her compositions range from highly structured to spontaneous, layered pieces. Camilla’s work is part of private collections across Europe, and her prints are available for purchase, bringing her distinct, contemplative style to spaces seeking both aesthetic richness and thoughtful engagement.