Two Men Talking

 Two Men Talking - - -

Akryl på lerret, 30x40 cm

Bildet kommer til den permanente salgsutstillingen på Eikerapen Gjestegaard på

Ljådagane 2-3.jjuli 2021.

Her finner du malerier til salgs fra flere kunstnere

Vi to som nå har hatt utstilling med malerier der siden 2018:

Gerlinde Streit, Anne Elisabeth Nitteberg og gjester

Bjørn Rune Holtan, Elin Ohlsen , Johanne Lind

Keramikk, Kristine Thorsland

Vesker og belter i skinn: Solveig Huset Lund

2020 - Året som har gått ...

 Demokratiet faller, The Corona Bird, Hallowind. Tre uttrykk som har forstyrret kreativiteten min i året som gikk.

En Trilogi i str. 80x100cm. Lengst til venstre er "Demokratiets Fall". Riktignok malt på slutten av 2019, men får oss til å tenke på små samfunn og enkeltpersoner som overkjøres av politikere som mange ganger kan se ut som marionetter for storindustri og særinteresser. I "The Corona Bird" gis den pågående pandemien uttrykk for året med stengte grenser, avstand, atskilte familier og økende fattigdom... "Hallowind" viser et landskap under rasering uten angreknapp. Hva vil kommende generasjoner si når de forstår at vi har frastjålet dem naturmangfoldet og renheten i bytte for en svulmende bankkonto som må brukes på reparasjoner og vedlikehold.

I 2021 skal jeg male noe annet enn et samfunn under prøvelser, kanskje jeg må sette perspektivet fra universet på nytt, eller slutte...

I alle fall er Trilogien til salgs enten sammen, eller hver for seg. Maleriene er utstilt på Eikerapen Gjestegård.

Vinter i La Pène

Nyte Dreamer  who loves the snow. From January 2010

Nyte Dreamer

Happy New Year 2018

Happy New Year to Everyone!My sincere wishes for your happiness and progress in the new year!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Happy Easter Day !

Another cloud to be puzzeled by, Happy Easter Day !

Best wishes for Christmas and The New Year to you all

The best wishes for the holidays from Gallery Xpremental and Elisabeth's Bright Side.

May we learn to treasure the good moments and let them colour our day.

A few photos from Southern Norway and Southern France for christmas.

From Norway

From France, view to the Pyrenèes,

 and Limoux. Always a grand round-about

 

Vårlig tur i Dyreparken

Koselig søndagstur i Dyreparken

Først en liten tur innom Soko for å fylle opp kaffekoppen. Her er et par av de nyeste "flip-flop" dyrene som blir håndlaget i Masal Mara, men ellers er det massevis av fine produkter hvor de som lager dem får 75% av salgsprisen minus materialkostnadene.
Det er mange fine smykker og nettadressene under gir flere opplysninger fra BASECAMP FOUNDATION

www.maasaibrand.com
www.basecampfoundation.org
tmb@basecampexplorer.com

Flip-flop sjiraff

Flip-flop flodhest og mange andre produkter

Og her er noen av utedyra

Ellers var det et par kattemotiver som pekte seg ut

Klatrende Sibirtiger



















Hva gjør man ikke for maten

Her er "Tigergutt" "Se, som jeg spiser grass som en god vegitarianer og jeg tror jeg holder litt avstand til flamingoene"

Skywatch - 11. January 2013

 These days my thoughts goes to Australia with their people and wild life that are struck by all the fires.

I'll never forget my journeys down under.

This is from the route up to Wilpena Pound from Port Augusta

Reaching the Flinders Ranges National Park,
we slowed down the speed as you can see why.

One of the guided tours gave us the unforgetable moment of watching a little colony of the Yellow.footed Wallaby.
Forgive me if I didn't remember the full name, but please remind me.

And for beautiful views from all around the globe,
enjoy the visit to :

Skywatch 4. January 2012

This week I like to present two skies in two different lands.

one dramatic in Norway that shows the very local rain showers that day. One minute sun and the next rain, the umbrella was just tucked away.

and blue and very clear skies in France

For more skies and views from all around the globe,
enjoy the visit to :

Galahs - 2009

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all.

14. of May 2009 in La Pène at Maison Tranquille

This is another day of unison watering of all the gardens and vinyards and other fields.

Fra Vue-Matin Mai 2009

Guess it's time to show something else than the documentation, of mother nature around Maison Tranquille.
What about some walking Platane trees that we found in "La bastide de Bousignac" in Ariége. Winnie was of course the photograph since I'm the driver and was ordered out of the car. Even if she was tired from our trip to Sequoia Vertigo, she got it.

Fra Vue-Matin Mai 2009

Maybe they are walking from street to street? It must be boring standing in front of the same houses year after year perhaps.

Fra Vue-Matin Mai 2009

The Norwegian in France

I think maybe I should clear up a few things, just for the record. Yes I’m Norwegian. Actually I’ve been living in Norway my whole life minus a couple of years just now. Just now I’m happily retired in France. I live together with my daugther and family. I‘ve known for years that I’m Francophile. Just maybe I’ve lived here a couple of lifetimes, before if we believe in reincarnation. Anyway it feels like home, I have this strange feeling of peace and content, more in contact with nature, and there is really no hurry like before in the computer business. I live in the middle of the ancient Cathar country. If we think about wine, it’s in the Malepère country.

Kanskje bør jeg oppklare litt. Jeg er Norsk og jeg er vokst opp og har bodd i Norge hele livet minus de par siste årene. Akkurat nå bor jeg i Frankrike, lykkelig pensjonert og bor hos datteren min og familien. Jeg er Frankofil fra lenge siden. Kanskje jeg har bodd her for et par liv siden, hvis vi tror på reinkarnasjon. Uansett føler jeg meg hjemme her. Å bo her midt i Catharenes land gir fred i sjelen og mer kontakt med naturen. Det er ikke så mye som haster lenger som før. Tenker vi vin og Frankrike, heter vinlandet jeg bor i Malepère.

It’s real easy to forget the time and just sit and meditate or just be.

Panta Rei

This is"Pantha rei"


I do not know how many layers of thin paint I've put on.
I do not know exactly how many hours I was painting.
I don't remember if there were 9 month or twelve it took to finish.

What I do know, is that it does not matter.
When I started I just knew that it was what I had to do.
Over the months I was painting it filled my soul with peace and my senses was more alert for inspiration from the life around me.

What I understood was that this special image had opened up my eyes to the important values in life. It dawned on me that what I tought was my personal religion that actually was quite simple, not only were mine, but shared by billions of people that had seen the same as me for thousands of years.

When it comes to the actual painting, I have experienced different types of paint, brushes, strokes, thinners, methods, strategy. I went to an restauratation specialist in France which is restauring old paintings in south France and she thought me to stretch and prepare the canvas like in medieaval times.  Emmanuelle also tought me how to create folds and depth.

The title Pantha rei felt natural to me, since I did not make a copy. And to copy a glimpse of the universe that is just flowing would be quite bizzare. It was thru my background investigating on Heraklit I found that it was something called "Pantheism"..


When I started to paint Pantha rei it was from an unforgetable inspiration that the ASA Hubbletelescope team had given me. When I saw their "Orion Nebula" on their web, I was sold. By the time my painting was finished, their Orion Nebula photo was very popular..