Rolf Hanson is an artist with a strong relationship to colour. He has an excellent ability to convey different moods in his paintings depending on the combination of hues and surface texture. In many of his abstract motifs, there is a tension created by energetic encounters between fields of colour in bright shades and muted dark earth tones. In the auction's work from 1992, we see the characteristically heightened colouration that he developed during the latter half of the 1980s. Regarding the transition from the more nature-oriented palette to a stronger expression, Lars Nittve writes in the Rooseum exhibition catalogue from 1995: "It was (...) as if he had replaced the burnt sugar of the turn-of-the-century palette with the strong artificial sweetness of Aspartame."