Vabukten / The bay
Vakre Vabukten på Hankø. Her har flere malt før meg, blant annet Hans Gude. Sist gang jeg så denne pastellen hang den ved siden av et meget godt Fritz Thaulow-maleri. Det likte jeg godt - vi ønsker vel alle å være sammen med heltene våre.
Beautiful Vabukten on the island Hankø in the Oslo Fjord.
The Ant Lion’s landscape
Furuer ved Ørekroken / Pine trees on the beach. A strange and un-nordic landscape, this place is for me. I´m fascinated, and return here time after time. This place is also home of the (in Norway) rare creature The Ant Lion, Myrmelon bore, a frightening monster if you´re 1/4" or smaller. They dig a cone-sheped hole in the sand, and hide in the bottom of it. When you stumble over the edge, they throw sand at you to make you fall all the way, and when you hit bottom, you become dinner.
Lasse
I keep on finding, formatting and publishing older paintings on the website. Here is a standing, male nude. The model, Lasse, was a very good one. Unfortunately he died young. The painting, which was done during my second year at the State Academy of art in Oslo, was purchased for the Academy’s collections. Rumor has it that this collection has been treated very badly.
Bukten , Røvik
I keep on posting old paintings. Here’s one painted when I was visiting the the Norwegian maestro Odd Nerdrum and his family, a warm and hospitable environment and a beautiful coastal landscape.
Bånn i Bunnefjorden
Keeping up the archeological project, finding and formatting photos of older paintings. This one is one of the first painted in a place called Bånn i Bunnefjorden, literally The Bottom of the Oslo Fjord. I have returned to this place hundreds of times since I first came here. and painted maybe 15 paintings.
On the rock nearer than the pictures lower edge, right beside my left knee, two vipers were enjoying the late summer sun. Very peaceful. An encounter that filled me with awe and respect.
Older paintings
I’m digging up photos of older paintings these days, formatting them to publish them on this website. Here’s an old boat from twenty or so years ago, painted standing on the ice, which always is a special thrill. Photograph could’ve been better.
The painting that was destroyed by alcohol smugglers.
This time of year, but quite some years ago. Painting in the old oak forest of Nesodden, where I lived most of my grown-up life. Later, the painting was kept in a storage I rented. At some point of time, these bad guys had gotten access to my storage, and, since it was quite spacious and not so often visited, they decided to use it for their own purposes. When I came there one day, the place was stacked with loads of beer, wine and liquor. To make space they had sort of cleaned up my stuff. This painting was thrown on top of a lot of other canvases, face down, and torn beyond repair. Photo by my good friend Kjell Midthun, who stopped by for a chat while I was working.
Back in Genéve
Here spring is at its fullest, but there’s a lot of wind. So I’m working indoors most of the time, trying to finish up some paintings. Here’s one that’s finished earlier. It depicts the neighbourhood farm, just a couple of minutes down the road.
After the harvest
A pastel done last autumn close by the place I’ve been painting this spring. A very peaceful area, considering that it is in the middle of Oslo (geographically speaking).
The church in the forest
I had this church from 1959 as a studio for some years, while they waited to take it down and build a new one. Fantastic studio , 730 square meters, a wall of windows facing north. In the end I was asked to portray the old church. The biggest plein air painting I’ve done so far. I needed a solid easel, and built one from old church benches. Finished painting is here.
Maridalselven
Lately I’ve been painting by the small river innermost in beautiful Maridalen, a rural outskirt of Oslo. This landscape is reshaped by the beavers, and it seems there’s nobody there except them, the deer and moose, and me.
Lately I’ve been painting by the small river innermost in beautiful Maridalen, a rural outskirt of Oslo. This landscape is reshaped by the beavers, and it seems there’s nobody there except them, the deer and moose, and me.
Utstilling i Kragerø Kunstforening - Exhibition in Kragerø Kunstforening
I’m opening my solo show in beautiful Kragerø July 17th. The Exhibition will be hanging until August 1st
Hvitveis / White anemones
Intervju hos Norgesklubben i Sveits
Jeg hadde hyggelig besøk i Le Grand-Saconnex av Grete Scotolati fra Norgesklubben i Sveits, og hun lagde dette intervjuet.
This interview is in Norvegian only, for the club of Norvegian expats living in Switzerland.
Note the standing woolen sock in the background, that’s my patented coffe thermos heat preserver.
Maridalselven
These days I paint by the small river innermost in beautiful Maridalen, a rural outskirt of Oslo. This landscape is reshaped by the beavers, and it seems there’s nobody there except them, the deer and moose, and me.
Utstilling i Haugesund Billedgalleri
Jeg åpner utstilling vegg i vegg med den fine kunstneren Danuta Haremska fredag 10. januar. Utstillingen står til 9. februar.
Hjertelig velkommen til vernissage fredag 10. januar kl 18:00.
