Bo Markenholm (Swedish, born 1964)
Bo Markenholm recalls a very specific moment as the catalyst in his decision to explore a career as an artist. As a child, his first experience seeing Ralph Goings’ iconic masterpiece “Hot Fudge Sundae Interior” allowed him to see the possibilities available to him and opened him to the idea that such illusion could be created on a piece of canvas. He devoted himself to oil painting at that point, subsequently studying Art History at Lund University in Sweden. Throughout his career he has perfected his version of realism, though he states that, “Hyper Realism, Super Realism, Photorealism ... you can call it what you want. For me it is only important to create life on the screen - my motives are not photographs but reality.”