Below is some information and thoughts on some of the work on this site:

'A SUITCASE FULL OF SAND'

'In this series of work I attempt to evoke feelings of holiday nostalgia, and of a ‘common past’ many of us seem to share. With subject matter drawn from yellowing, dated family photographs, seaside postcards and other remnants from the past, it is a portrait of warm, pastel-coloured summers – homely and acutely recognisable, yet unreal, clichéd and sentimental.'

THE 'TOURIST SERIES'

'Pettersson’s Tourist Series represents the artist’s most recent body of work, produced after one and a half years of adventures throughout China, Australia, and South East Asia, where she extensively photographed, collected impressions and filled notebooks with sketches. The artist explains that this series remarks on the way travellers attempt to understand that which is unfamiliar or exotic to them, commenting on the tourist’s necessarily limited experience. Pettersson’s sometimes humorous out of context imagery are like cut outs or symbols, echoing the stereotypical or limited way tourists often see new places.
The solid and thick outlines of Pettersson’s figures recall Pop Art, the graphic nature of the work showing influence of Pettersson’s background in design, as well as her regard for the direct and simple messages of propaganda posters and vintage commercial advertisements.’
Maura Ruskin, October 2006, Tel Aviv,  Dollinger Art Project www.dollingerartproject.com