Sobre el Artista

I paint what I have inside me as an individual. I seek the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive. I feel that the most interesting paintings are not really what you see but what one think. Creating helps me bring to the forefront situations that I have experienced as a young student. Living through, during a very short period, adapting to life in a new country as I moved from my native country Denmark to Sweden, United Kingdom and France away from my family. The lines in my paintings are minimalistic and simple -although irregular, curved, ambiguous, imperfect and mixed with strait lines -conveying a sense of agility, dynamism and equilibrium. The paintings are created in an abstract, non-figurative idiom based online, color and shape. My works are devoid of narrative and without symbolic content, communicated directly through sensory elements and via immediate experience. The colors glow with energy and vitality and makes the work vibrant. Sometimes, I go wild with colors, other times I use ancient earth pigments such as Raw Siena, Burnt Siena, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Indian Red and different Ochres. Sometimes I paint black and white. I use recycling materials of which I read their story and bring them to life again in numerous ways, experimenting, with ancient canvas, heterogeneous and obsolete maps, copper engravings, media coverage or old sheets of music…all revealing colors with patina. I suppose you can call me a #recycleartist. I have a weakness for old frames, especially silver and gold plated, with patina. I am working within a sort of “organized mess” of colors, materials and frames. Often, I decide to keep and preserve the initial artwork on the flipside of my paintings to add to the story. I have travelled a lot and I have absorbed the light and textures which will illuminate and give depth to my paintings. Especially I love to go to our old summerhouse in Skagen where I find the light and the solitude to be magnificent painting circumstances.