Karolina Kling

Karolina Kling is a Gothenburg-based print designer and artist whose work moves fluidly between illustration, pattern and painting. Alongside her artistic practice, she has worked extensively across fashion, interiors and home design, including several years as a print designer within the fashion industry before turning her focus more fully towards independent projects and large-scale work. Today, her practice spans wallpapers, posters, textiles and wall paintings, often translating expressive, hand-drawn compositions into graphic surfaces.

Travel plays a central role in her work. Southern France and Italy, particularly rural landscapes around Tuscany and the area surrounding Nice, recur as visual reference points. “I love to travel, it’s always a good starting point,” she explains. “I find it hard to keep creativity and inspiration up if I can’t visit new places.” Rather than depicting specific locations, her art prints distil atmosphere, colour and rhythm into simplified motifs and intuitive mark-making. Her pieces for The Poster Club originate from a series created during a summer stay in Marseille, drawn with pens bought locally and completed in a hotel room.

Colour as Escape

Working across acrylic, ink, watercolour and, most recently, pen, Karolina’s process shifts depending on context. While commissioned projects often begin with a defined brief, her personal works allow for a freer, more intuitive approach, where spontaneity and material experimentation take the lead. The roughness of line and the visible texture that emerge through this process are not incidental but integral to the finished image.

Colour sits at the centre of Karolina’s practice. Drawn instinctively and generously, it functions as both material and mood. “I love colour,” she says. “To see beautiful colour combinations can make me happy in a way few things can.” Her prints invite a sense of pause and escapism, shaped by travel, memory and the pleasure of working freely with colour and form.