Collecting Collours, Lines and Shapes

Having been a visual artist with roots in abstract modern painting and intuitive drawing, I have probably long before I became conscious of it been looking at nature with an "abstract and intuitive gaze". In nature, forms of abstraction will always arise, something deformed, surfaces and lines that do not directly tell us what they are like rocks, water or plants, but rather lead the attention to something else, such as parts of pictures or human stories. Seeing nature as a huge resource for creating other images came a little later.

Some pictures are forever left as they were when I took them, without any processing other than regular light adjustments etc., others form the basis for new compositions in interaction with others and then the pictures can change dramatically.

Finding out which images can work together and create new narratives is often quite a long process where I bring many images into the process before I land on something, perhaps something I would never have thought of before I started. It is an open process.

Among the landscapes I use the most and keep waiting to return to is Moutmarka on Tjøme. Here everything changes with seasons, weather and high and low water. It's impossible not to find something new, something I haven't seen before, or not seen that way before. The hours flow and I often stay in an area, the deeper I go in one area, the more fascination and depth I find. And when I leave, I often think, - I have to go back there.

Moutmarka is a protected natural area and here you will find everything from low and gnarled birch trees, dramatic rock formations, reeds and water. It is a gift to live close to this.