Lilla regnet (Little Rain)

What colour are clouds? They are often depicted as white, but what colours are they really? And what colours feel cloudy?

One day while the artist, Johan Ledung, was cleaning out a storeroom, he found some old drawings that his children had done. In these, the clouds were blue. When Ledung was considering his contribution to the Lilla Å sculpture riverwalk, he took inspiration from his children’s drawings and made clouds in bronze. He painted two of them blue and left one in its original bronze colour. The clouds rest on tall bronze rays of rain protruding into the lawn. Blue flowers of the Siberian squill variety have been planted around them. They like the rain, you see.

Johan Ledung lives and works in Örebro. He started out as a furniture maker but realized after a few years that he couldn’t resist the desire to let loose his artistic creativity. He has now been working for many years as a self-taught artist. He sees himself primarily as a painter, but also works extensively with installations. Recurring materials in his works are acrylic glass and saplings. He paints on the glass, often on both the front and back sides, and with the saplings he makes sensitively sprawling sculptures.

Ledung found his own expression long ago, but points out Ragnar Sandberg and Paul Klee as artistic soul mates who were important for him in his youth. His own work is characterized by poetic, often meditative tones. He hopes that viewers will “stop, take a deep breath, sit down, marvel and maybe smile. And when they walk away, hopefully it will be a little more slowly than when they came.”