The Light Pours Out Of Me

Feature in ArtWire 2025.

Excerpt ARTWIRE 2025. "Painting What Can’t Be Seen".

Richard Solstjärna created “The Light Pours Out of Me” after the death of a close friend.

The image doesn’t shout. It emits. There’s a quiet glow to it. Solstjärna doesn’t try to steer the viewer toward a single meaning. Instead, he lets the painting do what it needs to do. It’s not about him. It’s about the thing that’s now on the paper—alive in its own way.

He writes: “Either with sickness or with age you’re going to feel or sense it. That the light pours out of you. It’s inevitable.”

There’s something brutally honest about that. The light doesn’t fade. It pours. And while that may sound gentle, it’s not passive. It’s active. It’s the soul leaving the body. It’s radiance in retreat. It’s the truth that no one escapes. But Solstjärna isn’t just observing this. He’s offering a directive: Transmit it to the world while you can. Use your light. While you have it. That message isn’t buried in symbolism—it’s spelled out."

Framed with a thin black frame. Ready to hang. Frame size: 52 x 42 x 2 cm.