Daniel's scenic oil painting explores the tension between beauty and menace. He works within an unstable landscape, where the battle is waged between seduction and destruction.

He examines dualism, amplifying polarities and revealing the space where stillness meets looming danger. This emerges in transitional states—intensified colors during shifts in light, weather, and atmosphere—or through the materiality of the work itself.

His imagery consists of unpredictable places and events: the sea, both alluring and perilous; twilight, serene and beautiful, yet harboring unseen threats in the darkness. Softness contrasts with hardness—stones and cliffs set against trees or clouds.

We live in an age of extremes, a tug-of-war between security and collapse. Nature, like society, is shaped by opposing forces. Perhaps we exist precisely in this charged space between danger and beauty.

Daniel’s artistic practice is rooted in strong physical memories—experiences of solitude in the liminal space between night and day, or between calm and storm, where pleasure and danger are equally present.

He is drawn to landscapes that simultaneously invite and repel. His compositions are often constructed views, composed to embody this dialogue between the beautiful and the ominous.

The inner contradiction and dissonance of a situation form the foundation of his process. These experiences are translated into a struggle both with and against the material, incorporating elements of traditional layering techniques alongside expressive gestures and interventions. His painting is both intuitive and materially investigative, utilizing a wide range of substances and tools—oils, acrylics, chalk, eggshells, spatulas, and wooden sticks. He builds textures, often from the very first ground layers, to create a tactile three-dimensionality and a dialogue between opacity and transparency.

Titles play a crucial role in his work, adding an immaterial psychological charge. They lean toward latent narratives of power, social structures, and temporality.

Daniel Ewerman (b. 1972) lives and works in Stockholm. He studied at Nyckelviksskolan and holds an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He is also a former board member of Konstfack University and ArkDes, Sweden’s National Centre for Architecture and Design.