The motifs in Lars Sarto Hempler’s works are taken from the real world, but it is just as much the work itself and the work with the form and especially the colours that is central. The driving force in the works lies in the meeting between form and colour. The colours can lie in many layers and are richly present in many of the works. In several places there is an interplay between complementary colours and between light and dark colours. Several of the works approach an abstract expression, and they live a life at a more or less distance from the motifs’ original context. In some of the works there is a hint of horizon line and perspective, and in that way a hint of space in the works. In others, the figurative is almost dissolved, and the colour is what defines the shape and not the other way around. By being somewhere between figuration and abstraction, Lars Sarto Hempler adds tension to the works and gives them an openness to the viewer.