Liv Olsen

Welcome to my world of art. I am Liv Olsen, a contemporary artist based in the heart of Germany.

Discovering My Passion

I have always been fascinated by nature. Growing up in the countryside with a deep connection to animals, meadows, forests, and a hilly natural landscape, I developed a profound bond with the natural world. Through many travels and this close relationship with nature, it is now a great joy for me to reconstruct these deep experiences and capture them on canvas.

Interestingly, as a young child, I wasn't particularly fond of painting. However, everything changed when I was 13 years old. While exploring the attic of my parents' house, I stumbled upon an old, dusty box. Curiosity piqued, I took the box to my mother and asked her what it was. Inside, I found silver tubes of paint, old-fashioned yet beautiful in their own way. My mother explained that they were my grandfather's old oil paints. From that moment, my love for oil paints was born. I was fascinated by the process of mixing colors, the endless possibilities it offered, and how the colors would blend yet retain their distinctiveness.

However, oil paints were quite an expensive pursuit for a 13-year-old, so I transitioned to acrylics. I began painting pictu...