Mixed Media

Combined techniques and materials, experimental artworks

Woodpecker transformation series showing four sequential paintings: naturalistic woodpecker at feeder progressing through geometric deconstruction to pure circular abstraction, demonstrating systematic architectural analysis of natural form

Strandpromenaden 20 ex

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Year: 2026

Medium: drypoint and coffee painted on plate / printed on 220g watercolour paper, edition of 20 copies

Dimensions: A4 (size paper)

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A steam locomotive that once ran on the Umeå line. In the background stands Tornhuset by Rådhusparken, built in 1892 as the city’s first wood-fired power station, with its neo-medieval tower that once also housed the fire station. To the right, the tower of Umeå Cathedral, consecrated the same year, is just visible.
Where trains once ran and ships docked, today stand the Strandpromenaden and Rådhusparken. The railway, the harbour and the locomotive shed have long since disappeared. The place looks nothing like it once did.
The ink is mixed with coffee. Each print is hand-drawn and unique in tone.
A memento of a cityscape that has vanished.

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Strandpromenaden 2/20, mixed media unique state print, drypoint on alukraft, painting on plate, A4
Strandpromenaden 2/20 ex

Woodpecker transformation series showing four sequential paintings: naturalistic woodpecker at feeder progressing through geometric deconstruction to pure circular abstraction, demonstrating systematic architectural analysis of natural form

Listen to Camilla Akraka 14 ex

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Year: 2026

Medium: two-plate print: drypoint and brush-painted monotype / printed on watercolour paper, edition of 14 copies

Dimensions: A4 (size paper)

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Listen is a work of art by the artist Camilla Akraka, unveiled in 2019 at Rådhustorget in Umeå. It was Sweden’s first #MeToo monument. The sculpture depicts a red-lacquered feline with an open mouth and Nordic gold in its jaws, positioned three metres above the ground on a stainless-steel frame reminiscent of a cage. The animal is situated outside the cage. Umeå Harbour, Umeå Municipality
In the print, the sculpture meets the old town hall behind it. The first plate documents the building in black. The second plate is manually painted with carmine red and black each time. Every copy is unique.

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Listen to Camilla Akraka 4/14, mixed media unique state print, drypoint on alukraft, painting on plate, A4
Listen to Camilla Akraka 4/14 ex

Woodpecker transformation series showing four sequential paintings: naturalistic woodpecker at feeder progressing through geometric deconstruction to pure circular abstraction, demonstrating systematic architectural analysis of natural form

Skeppsbron 12 ex.

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Year: 2026

Medium: drypoint, brush-painted monotype and acrylic / printed on handmade paper with embedded text, edition of 12 copies

Dimensions: A4 (size paper)

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In 2014, Väven opened on the banks of the Ume River, designed by Snøhetta and White Arkitekter, winners of the Kasper Salin Prize. The façade bands are inspired by the birch, the tree that gives Umeå its identity. The city of birches.
A historic harbour once stood on this very spot. Boats, warehouses, trains, water and movement.
The print is made on handmade paper containing text. Text that you can almost, but not quite, read. Above the motif, undulating lines that are both birch and water.
The warm brown tones come from a second plate, brush-painted with coffee. The light areas are painted with highly pigmented acrylic. Each copy is unique — the colour flows differently every time.
The city rewrites itself.

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Skeppsbron 6/12 ex