May Hege Rygel

Norwegian painter.

Statement
Watercolor is my medium. I adore it! The technics with pigment and lots of water gives me the challenge I need to express what I think and feel. Finding the essence of everything, big or small, is my agenda. I like to express the changes in moods and atmospheres. Calm restlessness. Balance and no balance.
I like to bring the history of art, that I have picked up through life, with me into the world of watercolor.

Study with the painter Leif Lundgren 1970 to 1980.
Several courses with nordic watercolor painters 2002 - up to today.

202018.-19. april OSLO OPEN, (Cancelled (corona-virus))
2020 PARALLAX ART FAIR, Kensington, London
2019 NFUK 2019 in Gallery Hamar Kulturhus
2019 Freeloaders, Myntgata 2, Oslo
2018 MiniCastra 2018, Slovenia
2017 NFUK´s summer exhibition – Stavern (jury) Norway
2016 Baltic Bridges 2016 : Challenges and directions, International Watercolor Biennial (jury), Kaunas Picture Gallery in Litauen.
2016 3rd International Watercolor Biennial of Thessaloniki in Greece (invited)
2016 NFUK’s landsutstilling – Rådhusgalleriet in Oslo.
2015 3 minutes. Watercolor croquie. Kari Kolltveit and May Hege Rygel. Dalype Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2015 Watercolor in Oslo, Rådhusgalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2015 Strømninger - akvarel fra 5. nordiske lande i Hillerød kunstforening, Denmark
2014 Watercolor International II, Thessaloniki, Greece
2013 Nordic Watercolor 2013 / The 16th ECWS Int. W. Ex., Løten, Norway
etc. etc.