About The Artist

CV Katarina Fagerström-Levring Katarina Fagerstrom Levring is a visual artist and photographer. Art, and later photography, has been an interest since her childhood. During many years water media were her main focus until digital photography, and the Lensbaby Composer entered her world. Today experimental, abstract, and close-up photography of especially flowers is her passion. She uses different flowers as energizing sources of forms and colors through which she creates her unique art. She finds that abstracting the subject is an exciting way to follow her vision. To quote Georgia O´Keeffe, ‘Art is not what you see, but what you make others see’. Her work is a result of sensitive and highly intuitive experiments with light and/or motion, with the tools she uses. She works mainly in her studio in the solitude she needs to be able to enter the contemplative state of mind, her work - as well as her life with a Bipolar 1 Disorder - relies upon. Photo Impressionism is the style which her work most resembles. There is one exception though, she does not use any post-production to enhance or edit her images, with the exception from the necessary cropping or resizing. The images are what they are from the moment. she has closed the shutter. Her favorite tools today are the Canon 5D Mark II digital camera with the Lensbaby Composer and selected optics and macro filters. The artist lives and works from her studio at home in Kungsbacka, Sweden. The artist is married to a "wonderful guy" who supports her career as well as her struggles with her Bipolar 1 Disorder. The couple also have a dog called Eddie. Awards 2011: Photographers Forum, 31st Annual Spring Photography Contest, Finalist 2011: August, International Photography Awards 2011:Six Honorable Mentions in four different categories. 2011: June, Prix De La Photography Paris; Non-Professional; Finalist, 6 images nominated to the Official Selection Winner category. 2010: August, Photography Awards 2010: Amateur, One Honorable Mention. 2010: July, Upstreampeoplegallery.com:10th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, 5/5 accepted, 2 Honorable Mention awards. 2010: June : Prix De La Photography Paris;Non-Professional; Nature/Flowers. First price. Prix De La Photography Paris;Non-Professional; Nature Flowers. Honorable Mention 2010 January : Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 12th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, Finalist, 5/5 images accepted, Special recognition for one image. Exhibitions 2012 April 10th -23d April Group Show at Brick Lane Gallery, London, Great Brittain 2011 November 4th - 30 th, 2011 Group show at Marzi Art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 2010 September 1 2010 -31 August 2011, Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 12th Annual Photographic Processes Juried Online International Art Exhibition. 2010 August 1 2010 -31 2011, Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 10th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online International Art Contest. 2010 April 7-June 8, Still Point Art Gallery (online): Still Point II. 2010 January 1- Mars 30, Infinityartgallery: Winter Expo 2010. 2010 January 1 2010- December 30 2011; Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 12th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition. Publications 2013 Who's Who in Visual Art, 100 Fine Art Photographers, Vol 2013-2014 2012 Best of Artists, World Wide Photography Vol.III, Kennedy Publishing , 2012 2012 International Masters of Photography, Volume 1 by publisher World Wide Art Books, late in the Fall 2012. 2011 Photographers Forum, 31st Annual Spring Photography Contest, Best of Photography 2011. Release Date: December 2011 2011 Inspiration Speaks, Vol. 1, by authors ArtPlatform & Jessica Kristie, published by Winter Goose Publishing, 2011 2011 Who's Who in Visual Art, 100 Fine Art Photographers, Vol 2011-2012 2010 Annual PX3 Book No. 04, 2010