I am a visual artist — my life has moved through painting, drawing, photography, and digital art. Art has always been the driving force within me, yet perhaps even more, a need to reveal an inner world rooted in deep and spiritual experiences.

My journey has been long and rich. I am a member of Norske Billedkunstnere, through Landsforeningen Norske Malere LNM and Vestfold Bildende Kunstnere VBK. I have taught at Strykejernet Artschool, been involved in artist collectives like UKS and Myhrens Verksteder, and founded projects such as Levende Verksted and Nydalen Art School.

 

Today, I work mainly with photography and digital art. I write. I reflect. My earlier years were devoted to large abstract paintings, echoing my spiritual perspectives — inspired by the early modernists’ search for something hidden and timeless. Exhibitions, teaching, and art collectives have shaped my language of form, texture, and space. Yet always, my need has been to let creativity flow freely.

 

Out with the camera I am not concerned with finding the perfect subject, I wander and come to a 'place' where I think that here is 'something'. Then I start looking and then it's probably the visual artist in me who sees, I start 'looking' with the lens. It can take a long time, but then something happens - I find something that ignites an energy in me, something I recognize, something that wonders me, fascinates me. I get into flow, I see light, lines, colors, abstract compositions, something I can use as 'layers' in my images, colors that can add glow and depth to images. The deeper joy and connection I experience from being with nature, when it speaks to me, is indescribable. The landscape can be filled with compositions, stories, small cutouts, abstractions, materialities and colors I can use.

 

Back at home, the images load onto my computer and open Lightroom with my large Wacom screen. There, the images are processed and placed in catalogues with different themes. It is important to get to know the images and what possibilities may lie in them, so that when I start a new work, or develop several images within a theme, there is someone ambushed about what direction I take, what images to explore, where the possibilities are.

In order for the images to be ready for development, they must be post-processed. Then the image quality will improve and the images will be larger.

In the images I use sections of images to find compositional qualities and whole images in a mix, there are several layers of images one above the other that make up an image. I evoke lighting effects and colors instead of mixing light and colour in a traditional way, the layers are mixed in different blending modes, with different saturation and transparency.

 

Technical equipment

I have chosen my camera and my lens based on the fact that it should be a work tool that will give me room for creativity and play, without too much focus on technique. It will free me from painting and give me opportunities to use my visual competence in other ways.

Hence a Nikon D5500 with a Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6 ED DX VR.

It's such a good camera and lens that almost no matter what I might do, or forget to do, I come home with photos I can use for my use.

As a monitor, I have chosen a pressure-sensitive Wacom Cintiq Pro 32 Touch.

I develop my images in Photoshop and some in Lightroom.​

Thank you for reading

Eva

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