I live and work on the West coast of Norway, close to the North Sea and the deep Fjords.

Colour have fascinated and kindled my imagination my whole life, it has been the main ingredient in my work throughout my years. The opportunities that presented themselves sent me on different paths.  I made a career as an Art-Director in a advertising agency, some years later I was ready to try something new and wanted a new direction in my life. I  moved to England where I studied Art and Art Therapy, I did my art training at Tobias School of Art in East Sussex, and got my diploma in 1997. Back in Norway I worked as an Art Therapist mainly with children and young adults. In the last years I have devoted all my time to my artwork.

My artworks is a mix of lyrical landscapes and abstracted colour poetry. I use everyday experiences, memories and flashbacks to seek self-insight, while at the same time striving to make them into delightful experiences for the viewer to explore. These vivid explorations of feelings, memories and perspectives remain ambiguous on the paper, as the subject often dissolve into colour moods and remain in the abstract.

I want to convey my perception of these old landscapes to the viewer, to visualise the abundant beauty and vulnerability of the nature we are so dependent on. I'm captivated by nature that is unscarred by human activity and by using the veil of memories while I create them, my artworks are imbued by the whole experience and contain the impressions of sounds, smell and emotions as well as mood, colour and shapes. These lyrical landscapes are not pictures of actual places, they are made from memories and one could call them soul-moods, as they express emotions and a state of mind as much as a landscape.

Standing in a landscape without traces of human activity merge the experience of the past and the present. The timelessness of these old landscapes stop time and create moments of longevity. My grandmother or her mother could be standing in these landscapes and the land would have looked much the same, thus connecting me with moments long gone. By conserving these golden moments I make my own brand of permanence and bring together the present and the future.

I like to paint serenity and calmness into my art and like to think about myself as an conservator of quiet moments and blissful transience - it goes well with the poetic palette I use to express my lyrical impressions.