Galleri Trine

This is a painting I have been working on for a very long time. Propably as long as three years on and of. The painting has changed a lot through this time, but my idea of the rythmical repetation of the figure, the birds legs, and the strings stayed with me throughout the process. It is a large painting 150 x 120 cm. I will be showing this at my exhibition "Promissed land" at Kube art museum in Ålesund.

"Nobody", Oil on canvas 150 cm x 120 cm, 2010

I have been working om two paintings for the exhibition I am participating in at Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, 2009. The figures are perched on a wire. Like birds. Like humans.

One of two paintings. Painted for the exhibition at Galleri Ramfjord August 2009. Oil on canvas. 120 x 120 cm

One of two paintings made for the exhibition at Galleri Ramsfjord August 2009. Oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm

Another solo-show only three months after the Ear drop is a little tight. My solution to the challende was to make the new exhibition an extention of the previous. However I had to get rid of all that red. I always believed red to be a colour to be used with sobriety. It is so full of dynamite. So I concealed the red, and turned the new paintings into a close up study of skin-tones and change of light. The bar/gallery turend out to suit my paintings fairly well. The simply composed, classical figures appears cool and controlled in the rocky walls of Steinovnen.

The exhibition "Ear drop" consists of a varied number of paintings, made during the autumn of 2008. The paintings are linked through the subject matter of the falling ears, and the bright read background. The exhibition was fist shown in the gallery Volda Kunstlag, and then moved to my studio in Ålesund for a two day viewing.

The days of getting ready for an exhibition are full of emotions an lack of common sense. Copy and paste the adress below into your URL, and watch a wee video from the exhibition.

Almost done with this new painting... Ears flying everywhere. This is one of the two dodge-painings from my series "Eardrop"

I was commissioned to do a series of charcoal drawings for a psychiatric institution. The given guidelines had to do with the technique, not the content of the pieces. Working my way through the project, I decided to concentrate the series of drawings dwelling on the subject "balance". So in January 2008 I handed over nine charchoal drawings on white MDF-board. "Balance", in many ways, was the foundation of all these pieces.

I refer to myself as the paintress. A female artist, and a painter. Why become an artist, and why paint, one might ask? To me art was somehow a natural choice. Through art my abilities and talents can be combined with intellectual procecces controlled by myself. This is both a great privilege and a personal desire.
Oil painting has been around for 500 years, and is not necessarely an obvious working medium for the artist of today. There are multiple ways for an artist to express oneself, through all kinds of mediums, and through an endless number of crossovers.