I’m drawn to the quiet, often unspoken moments of human experience: What is home, really — a place, a person, or something that lives deep within us? What does it feel like when a vague feeling turns into a clear desire? And why are people who are so different from one another often such close friends?
Words alone aren’t enough to answer these questions for me — so I search for answers in colour and form. I’m not interested in the story behind an experience, but in its essence. That’s why I work abstractly and in a radically reduced way: I strip away until only what matters remains.
I paint with acrylics on large-format canvases, because some experiences are too big to be captured small. I use masking to keep colours from bleeding into one another — so the shapes stay sharp and precisely defined. I keep my colours pure and bold; they should glow, intensifying the expression of the experience.
Biography
I’m a business engineer, but a common thread runs through my entire career: a connection to design — in book production at a publishing house, in strategy and consulting at an advertising agency, and now in marketing leadership. What has always driven me is the urge to create something, whether it’s a book, a campaign, or a website.
I’ve actually painted for as long as I can remember — over the past 15 years, with interruptions, also in a painting group focused on realistic work.
Two years ago, I started painting tiny sketches every morning, just 4×5 cm, only for myself. The small format led me almost automatically toward reduction, and the images emerged intuitively. For a long time, I didn’t take them seriously. That changed last year in Oslo, where I had a real aha moment: it was time to take my pleasure — painting — seriously.
Since then, these morning sketches have become the foundation for larger, abstract works exploring themes of human experience. I have no formal art education and haven’t exhibited before. What I bring instead is many years of disciplined practice, a naturally clear and reduced way of seeing things, and a genuine, daily commitment to the questions I paint about.