The forest is a home - The exhibition in Oslo, May 2024

My new exhibition opens tomorrow, may 2nd. in Galleri A, Oslo, Norway. I have named the exhibition “Skogen er et hjem“, in translation; “ The forest is a home“. I have to admit that I rarely understand what the topics for my exhibitions are really about until all the works for the exhibition are finished. If I go in a new direction thematically and painterly, I don’t always know why (apart from the fact that I probably feel quite finished painting with the previous theme for a while). As I see this collection of my new paintings, they are probably about the nature around us and human domestication of it. Like the chainsaws on the pedestals are called: “Tredreper“ (“Tree killer“) I, II and III. In these paintings the birches roots don’t show, nor the treetops. They are seen in section straight from the side, as in an exhibition. Behind the trees, more or less monochrome surfaces are seen, as if the trees, and the few animals among them, are