About this artwork

In this painting I took up the mood from the painting which was given to me. The Norwegian fjord landscape is lonesome and dominated by the elements, mainly water and earth and sky. Compared to the painting which I received I have left out the boot in my painting. For me it was an ”intruder” into the silence and power of the beautiful natural formation. I mostly stayed in a greyish-blue colour which for me connects best skies and earth and water. As the challenge as I understood it was to take up what I was given and to transform it into my way of painting, I took up the basic structure of the landscape and added my colour it to make it more silent and more lonesome. In other words I tried to give the landscape and nature back to itself. The title ”Norwegian mood” to me describes best what I wanted to express.

About Petra

Painting for me has become the way of expressing myself and exploring a world which cannot be explored by words. I feel inspired by colours and shapes and lines as well as by ideas and moods all found in my everyday life. I take them up and transpose them into the more abstract language of painting in a sort of distillation process. This is a process of finding the right size, finding the right colours and painting medium. The result is then something which does not so much work on the level of recognition but on the level of the essence of something, of landscape or a face, for instance. Often I find inspiration in the human figure or in nature. My paintings oscillate between figuration and abstraction.I love these situations of ’in between’ never fully revealing their secrets. My main mediums of painting are self-made egg-tempera with pigments and oil colours.

Link to Petra’s Art Aviso profile HERE

Petra was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:

Volume 4
The story of the world and it’s peoples.
The Grandeur of a Norwegien Fjord.