the cold north Painting

I was born in Norway and my parents and I emigrated when I was almost 6 years old. I have been absorbed with drawing as long as I can remember. After raising my daughters I returned to school and graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 1999. Since then I have had the luxury of painting what I think about and dream about. Many of the images refer to my early childhood stimulated by the box of black & white snapshots my father saved. I was a lonely child until my siblings arrived and of course I did feel like an outsider, learning the language wasn't hard but fitting in was. Another direction that I travel is in my interest in the universe, theories about quantum mechanics fascinate me and confuse me enough to keep venturing towards understanding