Exploring the world through the eyes of critters

© 2025 by Katarina Andersson

Little Treat
Oil on mdf, 48 x 69 cm, 2024

Svinborst / Hog Bristle
Polymer clay, acrylics, copper wire,  43 x 24 x 12 cm, 2024

The first animal rights protest I joined took place at a dairy farm. I will never forget the calves’ eyes, separated from their mothers in tight stalls with anti-suckling braces in their noses.

Taste of Cheese
Oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm, 2025

This image came to me after reading a news article where researchers have found that wild hermit crabs have been starting to use artificial shells in the form of trash, instead of natural shells. To cite one of the researchers: we live in another time and animals use what is available to them.

Common Coffin I
Oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, 2025

She Whispered in My Ear
Oil on mdf, 65 x 81 cm, 2024

Common Coffin II
Papier-mâché, clay, wax, oil, fishing hook, 16 x 24 x 20 cm, 2025

 

Two years ago I found myself outside a pig farm in northern Italy. The screams and noises coming from inside are haunting me to this day. There is a reason why we are never allowed to enter pig farms.

Salama da Sugo
Oil on mdf, 65 x 81 cm, 2024

She is Someone, Not Something
Stoneware, acrylics, polymer clay,  34 x 35 x 40 cm, 2025

Hunting for Sport
Oil on mdf, 48 x 69 cm, 2024

I wanted to make a still-life, but place it in my artistic universe. I also wanted to explore how enlargement of an object changes how it is being perceived. Catch! is a word play, both referencing the act of catching a fish and an heads up to catch an object that’s being thrown against you.

Catch!
Oil on canvas, 60 x 170 cm, 2024

Sacrifice
Oil on canvas, 50 x 53 cm, 2025

 

Even if we are cut down, we must belive that we will rise again.

We Will Rise
Oil on canvas, 60 x 85 cm, 2025

During a freezing winter night me and my cat were sitting by the porch glass door. Out of the shadows two rats appear. Like a coordinated dance they take their positions, one climbing a dried out sunflower to reach our bird feeder and one on the ground below keeping watch.

Continuation
Oil on canvas, 60 x 160 cm, 2025

 

Last Christmas Eve a nature documentary struck me hard. It showed Laysan albatrosses, who consume more plastic than any other seabird and feed it to their young. The Pacific Ocean, once a place of abundance, has turned into a hostile plastic slush. While humans continue living as usual.   

Pick Up Your Trash
Oil on canvas, 40 x 39 cm, 2024

During a road trip I passed an abandoned factory near Krka National Park. In the 45°C haze I could hear an agonizing human cry. It turned out to be a young goat wandering around the collapsed ruins, looking for her herd. I decided to paint my idea of what happened next.

When We are Free
Oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm, 2024