Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish. – The Verge
Simon Stålehag, a digital painter, grew up in these landscapes – and so did I! These images evoke wonderful memories of my childhood years, even though I seem to have not noticed both the derelict and the functional robots and gauss freighters that seem to have been everywhere. Apart from the sci-fi, this was my world. I love this!
Map of the area surrounding the particle accelator
Seriously though, his sci-fi work revolves around a kind of buried particle accelerator near Stockholm, Sweden. Simons’ homepage is chock full of art samples, and I deeply enjoy those 80s-style images of the Swedish countryside. (The dinos and the weird robots, not so much.)
… original blend of naturalistic landscape paintings with science fiction elements and a very low key recollection of growing up in the eighties … – Kickstarter campaign
Here’s a video from the Kickstarter campaign to whet your appetite:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cabinetentertainment/simon-stalenhags-tales-from-the-loop
What amazing paintings!