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Born in Dalecarlia (Dalarna), Sweden. Lives in Göteborg since 1974.
KV's and Domen Art School in Göteborg 1976-81, 1983-85.
Studied under the painters Jan Bringevik, Göteborg 1986, 1987, Norman Richter Bordeaux, France 1987, Arne Isacsson, Provence 1987, 1989,1990, 1997, Georg Suttner, Provence 1997, Laris Strunke, Stockholm 1999. Member of the Nordic Watercolour Society since the start (participated in founding the society in 1989) Member of KRO and Svenska Tecknare


Galleri AE, Göteborg 1986, 1988, 1991, Galleri Origo, Stockholm 1988, 1990, 1994, 1997, Galleri K, Karlstad 1989, 1992, Galleri Östra Flygeln, Sunnansjö 1994, Stadshuskuben, Falkenberg 1995, Galleri Bacchus, Borås 1998, 2001, Partille Konstförening, SLOTTET 1999, Galleri Nord, Örebro 1999, 2002, Södra Galleriet, Stockholm 2000, Stockholm Art Fair 2001, Galleri Pictor, Munka Ljungby 2001, Galleri Flamingo, Falkenberg 2002, Galleri Kim Anstensen, Göteborg 2003, Fondazione Culturale, Venice, Italy 2003, Södra Galleriet, Stockholm 2003, Stockholm Art Fair 2004. Galleri Bergström 2004.


Galleri AE, Göteborg , Galleri St Lars, Linköping, Galleri 17, Stockholm , Konstfrämjandet, Örebro, Essunga Kommun , Galleri Bacchus, Borås, Galleri Kram, Halmstad, Dalakonstnärer, Ludvika, Galleri Bergström, Jönköping, Södra Galleriet, Stockholm ,Galleri Flamingo, Falkenberg, Röhsska Museet, Göteborg, Väsby Konsthall, Ekerum Konsthall, Öland, Tregastel, France, Galleri Pictor Munka Ljungby, Museum of Design and Applied Art, Iceland.


SEB Göteborg, Göteborgs Stad, Astra/Zeneca, Göteborg, Göteborg Opera House, Länsstyrelsen, Göteborg, Landshövdingeresidenset, Göteborg, Mölnlycke/ SCA, Göteborg,Volvo Göteborg, Falkenbergs Kulturnämnd, Härryda kommun, Essunga Kommun , Ludvika Kommun, Norrköpings Kommun, SACO Head office Stockholm, Stockholms Landsting, Telia Stockholm, Varbergs Kommun, Västerås Landsting, Örebro Kommun, Museum of Design and Applied Art, Iceland and also at numerous companies and private collections in Europe, Australia and the USA


SVENSKA DAGBLADET , November 1994:”Rocks like human bodies, like skin in red and pink, with blue as shadows and crevices in large, expressive watercolour paintings...Ulla Ohlson's lively painting is performed with a steady hand. The unusual glow imprints itself on the mind's eye for a long time.”

HALLANDS NYHETER , June 1995:”Far from the numerous drab colourless paintings, she lets the colours flow freely giving free reign to her imagination. There is a force and dynamic that will not leave the observer unaffected. Her water colour paintings are exceptional in the sense that she prefers the large, more demanding format. She lets the colours flow in fairly large strokes, bravely, without ingratiation. ‘Makes you want to live' is the name of one of Ulla's paintings, and her painting makes you want more…want to see more!”

SVENSKA DAGBLADET , October 1997:”Today, I could repeat what I wrote about Ulla Ohlson's paintings at Galleri Origo three years ago, adding that she has continued to develop her abstract imagery. If possible, she has become even more forceful in her expressions and darker, or rather harder, in her blue colour, which actually brings out the intensive light more than ever.”

NERIKES ALLEHANDA , October -99; “They are works of a very sure and skilful watercolour painter with lovely self-reliance and bold attacks that she uses when letting her colour flow and sprinkle over the paper…Her rocks and ocean views become almost mythical in their dramatic colour and form. It is as if giants could break the crevices and sea monsters could rise out of the waves.”

BORÅS TIDNING , March 2001; It is evident that Ulla Ohlson has been a student of Arne Isaksson – and she has done her homework without falling into the trap of imitating the master. It is true that her rocks are the often painted rocks of Bohuslän, but her temperament has transformed them into something else – like immense icebergs piling themselves up in a cascade of colours of an intense yellow against the whole range of blue shades from dark Paynes to bright Antwerp.

NORDVÄSTRA SKÅNES TIDNINGAR , May 2001; Galleri Pictor presents a Göteborg colourist with vibrant bright colours. Her painting is exceptional with motifs of the sea, rock formations of Bohuslän with long horizons, alternating with abstractness.

HALLANDS NYHETER , August 2002; At Galleri Flamingo she shows a homogenous but also vivid collection of water colour paintings and graphics, as well as a few very beautiful glass objects. Although the motifs might be taken from nature, the finished picture is closer to the abstract than the realistic. Ulla Ohlson brings out the essence of the landscape with her trained and sensitive eye: the lines, the surfaces, the unrest, the quietness, the reflections, renewal. Add a generously flowing paint-brush that allows the colour to flow and drip far outside the limits that the “normal” eye sets, and you get a result that is everything but conservative landscape painting.

JÖNKÖPINGSPOSTEN , November 2004; Watercolour technique is more difficult than difficult, cuteness might be awfully close, but Ulla Ohlson does not fall into that trap. “Powerful” is what I think of her paintings where the composition is often restrictive whereas she lets the colours blossom.