Oil paintings

Medium: Oil on canvas

Year: 2005-2007

Size: 95x95 cm

Owner: For sale: 12.000 NOK (or $1795.00)

I have always admired Cezanne. His father didn't want him to become a painter, but he insisted. Well in Paris, he took up painting vigorously but was too modern to get any praise by local gallerists and art critics. Several times he was rejected by the saloon causing him great self-doubt. Still, his dominant, stubborn side said, "one day I'll show them" and indeed he did.

A break-through for Cezanne was meeting the impressionistic painter Pissaro who taught him to paint outside. Between 1882 and 1887, he painted several canvases and watrercolors of the Sainte-Victoire mountain, close to where he lived in Provance, France. So this was my homage to Cezanne, depicting a mountain taken from my imagination, yet greatly inspired by his work.

*To read more about Cezanne or Pissaro, see my "Hall of Fame" section on the menu.

*Does not need framing. Is painted on 3 cm box-frame (painted on all sides).

Medium: Oil on canvas

Year: Aug 2005

Size: 60x60 cm

Owner: Kolbotn, Norway

This painting was done with Cezanne in mind, but the yellow sky lead my thoughts to Van Gogh.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Year: Summer 2007

Size: 60x60 cm

Owner: Oslo, Norway

Featured on the exhibit poster for the Galleri Soon exhibit, September 2007. To view/buy this poster visit the print section located on the main menu.

Oil on canvas

Year: summer 2004

Size: 116x89cm

Owner: Rygge, Norway

This painting was commissioned by Johan Svendsen in 2003, and was my first assignment to decorate a home: a lovely beach house in Skagen Denmark by Bratten Strand. Here, I wanted to keep it light and simple, just as the nature is there and where I get the same feeling as in Nice, France, of which Henri Matisse said in 1916: "When I understood that each morning I would see again that light, I couldn't believe in my good chance".