Norwegian 21st Century Realist artist
Promised Adventure
2024
53.3 x 65.8 x 5.1 cms | 21 x 25 3/4 x 2 ins
Oil on canvas
Boldbrush Award for June 2024. Oil on canvas. 21 x 25,9 in
This painting was made on my initiative as a gift and it is a memory from my wife Heidi's family. The painting shows her mother and her grandson Martin on a train journey when he was four years old. The boy was this sister's only child and he unfortunately died last February of cancer at the age of 38. The incident has of course affected the whole family and it is Heidi's and my hope that the painting will be an eternal memory and comfort.
I consider myself as an artist belonging to the group of new realists where the human being is looked upon in a new light and painted strongly figurative. The meaning of Clair Obscure, in Italian chiaroscuro, is light in the darkness. That is some of the reasons why I work with plain and few earth colors and very seldom part from that rule unless it is absolutely necessary.
To be able to convey a story with one single painting.
I've never forgot the rules and it was useable in oil, watercolor and charcoal as well. One of them was: "Don't be too tough with you pencil when you draw. Not too much information when you catch the line. Do not underestimate your audience". Your art must go in a direction where the photograph cannot follow!