Roses Painting

From April 2018 my studio will be in Skien in Southern Norway, and Henrik Ibsensgate 10. I look forward to be there in a shared space with 8/10 others, I am working with acrylic paint on canvas, and for me drawing has always been important for my work. When I start a new work, I sometimes turn the canvas, and work on unprimed canvas from both sides. It is important for my work, to explore the materiality on the textile, the ways of markmaking and applying paint in different ways. 2015/ 2016/2017 - I joined the Turps painters studio program. It's part of a program for artists at Turps Banana - Art school. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm born in Porsgrunn in Norway, and spent my childhood in Ytre-Arna outside Bergen on the west coast of Norway. I am a member of NBK and BIT, visual artists in Norway. Currently I am writing a master on Maria Lassnigs diary, and body awareness paintings, at University of Oslo. I have studied art in smaller private schools in Oslo. The last school I studied at is Nydalen Kunstskole. About my work: When I paint I use acrylics. The process is important, and I find different ways into my works. I work with acrylic paint on paper and canvas. Also I work with printing, which means using patterns from for example textiles or woodcut on the canvas. This is a way of applying texture and layers, and the paint works in surprising and different ways. I work with different ways of applying paint to my works, and that gives my process surprises and challenges that I find interesting. My works are in an abstract form, and much off the dialog with the viewer will be open and associative. One can read in a story and see rooms, but as a viewer one will not be led to a definite concrete impression One can also read in figuration in my work, I use both abstractions and figuration's as sources to give my work their visual identity.