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Event: London Art Biennale 2021
Dates: 30 Jun 2021 - 4 Jul 2021
The London Art Biennale is a museum-quality award exhibition that gathers contemporary artists selected from all around the world.
Event: The Second Society Exhibition
Dates: 23 Nov 2020 - 20 Dec 2020
The second annual exhibition of The Icelandic Watercolour Society. On display were 64 paintings by 47 artist members. The exhibition committee delegated three international professional artists to be the jury: Ann Larsson-Dahlin (Sweden), Keith Hornblower (England), and Valentina Verlato (Italy).
Event: Disrupting The Stillness
Dates: 16 Nov 2020 - 16 Dec 2020
An online exhibition co-curated by The Visionary Projects in New York and Lohme Art Gallery (Sweden). An exhibition hosted in an online viewing room where visitors move around freely and look at the art as if they were in an actual gallery. The theme around “Disrupting the Stillness” allows for all kinds of abstract art, from expressive to minimalistic, from paintings to sculpture.
Event: Abstractions
Dates: 28 Oct 2020 - 22 Nov 2020
Abstract artwork marries color, shape, pattern, texture, and imagination for work independent of our visual reality. Perceivably we are pulling a depiction away from any literal, representational reference point. Distancing ourselves from an idea of logic. ABSTRACTIONS is a collection of these realities displayed from various conceptual points of view.
Biography
I was born in Iceland, where I live and work.
Although abstract in nature my work is often inspired by the colors, rhythms, and seasons of the Icelandic landscape.
I work mainly with acrylics on canvas. I use large brushes, but also spatulas, trowels, and other unconventional tools, such as big custom-made squeegees and scrapers.
My paintings are multi-layered and through an accumulation of spontaneous, reactive gestures I let the paintings almost create themselves. The process is intuitive, but my knowledge of the physical properties of paint, and the way it behaves under different conditions, is also brought into play.
I love old hand-made things that have a history and a soul. Abandoned farmhouses, ghost towns, and other forsaken human relics fascinate me. I like the feelings they evoke and the poignant stories they tell. Weathered layers of peeling paint, rusted metal, and crumbling concrete have a strange visual quality that I find interesting.
With my art, I try to induce similar feelings in the viewer's mind. I am exploring something that I can only describe as the boundary between order and chaos. I think in that elusive and mysterious area I will find the secrets of creativity itself, or at least continued inspiration on my artistic journey.
What do I want to say with my art?
Treasure your humanity and uniqueness. Meaning can have many layers and it is a worthwhile effort to uncover a few of them. Celebrate the eccentric as well as the mundane, the hidden as well as the obvious. Beauty can be found in the most unlikely of places.
