Growing Up Print

Born in 1972 and lives in Oslo. My paintings expresses thoughts about using stereotypes and caricatures to describe situations, human relationships, individual or perhaps just a hint of sadness or joy in a glance. Much of my inspiration I find in memories and moments around adolescence and childhood, or experiences. I unders yourself how that moment can communicate very different depending on the viewer's personal history and cultural affinity. In many of my paintings there are many clues to start a story or resurrecting memories. In the paintings there is ofthen not normal boundaries between different themes, images and instruments. But all packed in colorful, borderless world where the use of humor, satire and symbolism searches against emotions like fear, courage, laughter and love to open up in earnest and underlying message. "It is in the figurative painting I've found a place for my free spirit and perfectionist tendencies". I work with structured design and composition. Despite this discipline I have an emotional approach to painting and love to discover a picture as it develops. And I'm open to let the image forming their own concept or story. My goal is to get others to feel that picture exudes energy and stir up the viewer's imagination with the freedom to fill their inner pictorial world with anything, without normality and shyness.