He worked as an auxiliary police officer and a part-time nurse. At the age of 38, he went from "useless" to a painter: minimalism is even more amazing!

"I used to always worry that my skills weren't good enough, but now I realize that this is another matter entirely. I think the most important thing is to have genuine motivation and perseverance."

In fact, the most important thing in learning to paint is really to cultivate an interest. It doesn't care how high your skills are. At least, you need to be able to really like them, and then you can strive for excellence to cultivate and strengthen your ability.

Benjamin Bjorklund

He started studying painting in high school, and then studied veterinary medicine in college. You can't say that this high school art career is useless. Compared with veterinary medicine, it is simply useless or even irrelevant.

1. From auxiliary police to nurse veterinarian and then resign

After graduation, Benjamin can be said to be a standard worker. As long as he can do a job, there is nothing he dares not try. At first, Benjamin relied on his connections to go to the prison and become an auxiliary police officer. As a young and energetic man, he has been arranged to work night shifts. Vigil, which makes Benjamin directly unable to stand this feeling of discrimination. After quitting his job, Benjamin went to the brain hospital and became a male nurse in a mental hospital. After a few months of careless work experience, he felt that this place was a waste of his life, and he was still as poor as ever.

Benjamin thought of his veterinary specialty. It shouldn't be a problem to rely on his craftsmanship to make a living, right? So he boldly started the veterinary industry again. This craft also seemed to make him eat the sweetness for a while, but most of them suffered, and he couldn't realize the freedom of life at all!

2. Inherit the ancient villa farm and learn to paint

However, as a great young man who dares to venture and try, he won't ruin his life. Benjamin, who lives in the old farm of a small country villa, can be described as surrounded by mountains and trees, and he also keeps a dog and some pets as companions. He lives the simplest life and starts his life of learning painting.

▲ Got a dog

Benjamin has never been exposed to painting since he graduated from high school. First of all, he was exposed to the training of painting training studio. Oil painting and watercolor are all the painting tools he was exposed to. After studying painting for a short time, his academic training almost relies on self-taught.

In the current era when all kinds of conceptual art or post-modern art are prevalent, especially in the environment where professional students and painters emerge in an endless stream, it is of course a bit whimsical for him to want to achieve something, but different from all kinds of previous jobs, this time he persisted, because he found that he really liked what he liked in high school.

3. Stand up again in the painting you really like

Benjamin devoted all his energy to painting. In those years, he kept studying. While creating, his behavior was resisted by many netizens, and he created many "thousands of miles away" works. However, he only worked harder to improve and strengthen himself. It was not until Benjamin thought that he had created some valuable achievements that he began to gradually let everyone accept his art.

Although Benjamin's life was rather chaotic after a few years after college, he was naturally modest and sincere. After learning to paint, his efforts showed a unique painting method, and the rude method of self-introduction, that is, simply showing his works to everyone without any marketing hype, but this method can produce a kind of magic and sublimate any theme he paints.

Good painting is contained and expressed within its own framework. Every brushstroke, every color and every arrangement of shapes in the painting conveys to us the true painting language.

4. Learn to think maturely in painting

I can't write my own story well, and my writing ability is very limited. Now I realize how lucky I am to be able to create on my own, with little outside influence and without really being associated with a certain genre or school of painting. I was free to create what I wanted, doing ordinary work and painting on my own. I struggle to express myself in words, which is perhaps why painting is so important to me. For me, painting is a natural way to react to what is happening around me and incorporate those reactions into my paintings.

From giving up painting to falling in love with painting, Benjamin can learn logically. He is good at oil painting and watercolor painting. The size of his works is very irregular, but every work must be thought and drafted in a sketchbook, looking for interesting shapes, and simplifying and integrating its processing. As a painter, his oil and watercolor creations are heavily influenced by classical and contemporary experiences. Although there is no exquisite copywriting, he expresses his feelings about his surroundings by drawing unintentionally and ingeniously.

From the painting, we can find that his composition and focus are as simple as possible, and fewer useless details are painted. As long as one main bright spot is enough to tell the story. In the shaping of characters, facial features have become his focus, using color to capture the emotional changes of the model, and sometimes just a few color blocks are enough to shape the model's shape, which is full of creativity.

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5. From aimlessness to painting coffee

Today's Benjamin has experienced exhibitions, galleries and collectors' invitations through a long period of time. His works have been collected in public and private collections all over the world, such as London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Melbourne, Sweden and Europe.

▲ His exhibition is like a confession wall, messy but tasty

Every painter has his own personality, and as an audience, he naturally has his own favorite style. Benjamin seems to have a bit of "mixed feelings" to many people. What he paints is not sunny, and he always seems to have something to say in his heart. However, he only expresses his feelings by self-taught painting the day after tomorrow. From creative ability to painting style, he is tantamount to a special existence. Saying that he is not good may be divorced from the audience's yearning for a better life, and just that, he proved his consciousness of independent self-study with painting, which is also an important point of painting art proof: "Every painter is independent".

In the developed life of the Internet, online is a huge gallery, where you can enjoy the works of many artists anytime and anywhere. Benjamin is one of them, and his style of works is also one of them. It's not so amazing, but it's individual enough to always win a little popularity in a hundred flowers blooming!

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