Marie Åkerlunds paintings offer renderings of contemporary creative life leaning toward the mystical and the cosmic. Her compositions often possess an air of the otherwordlly, with references to etherial beings.

She creates paintings brimming with emotionality and human instinct. Billowing streams of crystalline light, dark shadows, expressive visages and subtly anthropomorphic figuration speak to the mythological underpinnings of the work and the artist´s unique personal expression of faith through art emotionality and human instinct. Billowing streams of crystalline light, dark shadows, expressive visages and subtly anthropomorphic figuration speak to the mythological underpinnings of the work and the artist´s unique personal expression of faith through art