NUF Congress 2013 - Scandinavian Association of Urology

it is most certainly an over-simplification
to say that my interest in paining started
at a specific point of time. like most
other children i was fascinated by turning
the white surface of paper sheets
into something more colourful and as a
little boy i used rolls of white paper for
such a purpose. but with water colours
the result was never as successful as i
wanted and another painting medium
had probably been more appropriate.
such a developmental step did, however,
not appear until much later in life.
It was during my early medical studies
in Lund, 1967, that a real desire to
paint again came into my mind. The
reason for that was absolutely not caused
by excessive spare time because in fact the
reality was the opposite. I had a demanding
research project in medical chemistry; I
was an assistant at the department of medical
chemistry in Lund while I simultaneously
was following the courses necessary
for the medical education. All these hectic
activities were framed in a grey, rainy and
windy environment – obviously in need of
some colouration.
It was during the Christmas holidays that
I happened to face the marvellous and huge
landscape painting “Småländskt vattenfall”
(Figure 1) at the National Museum in Stockholm.
I can still remember how fascinated I
was by this impressive, monumental landscape
painting and undoubtedly this occasion
became the immediate incitement to
start painting with oil colours.
This leisure activity was probably of
great importance for handling the otherwise
stressful life during which my mind
continuously was filled with clinical and
scientific problems. The painting occasions
thereby gave me at least something else to
think about. It has of course not been possible
for me to paint regularly but rather
during intermittent periods of inspiration.
The problem was always to find and utilize
those occasions when time, inspiration
and a suitable motif coincided.
The passion for painting
– a refreshing driving force in clinical and research work
by Hans-Göran Tiselius, professor emeritus, Karolinska Institutet
Figure 1. “Småländskt vattenfall”, an impressive and dramatic landscape painting
by Marcus Larsson (1856). This painting provided the necessary inspiration for
the author to starting oil painting.
Figure 2. “Early morning in the forest”. Painting on gallery canvas 100 x 70 cm.
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