Terje Fagermo has put down his spatula and the bruch

 One of my most significant "tutors" within my own self-taught painting development died a month ago.

Terje Fagermo left this world on December 17th last year. He became 93 years young, and has made a lot of great colorful paintings together with other art expressions (sculptures, decorations and installations). 

As one of "the Selected" Tullen and I received the privilege to visit his studio in Ålesund and also "Kornbua" at Sandbu, Vågå, where the late owner Kjell Holm had made a special gallery for Terje´s paintings

Terje Fagermoe is well known as a painter that uses his hometown and the landscape close to fjords and mountains as motives for his paintings.  This one is covering "Molja lighthouse" with the buildings at "Molovegen" where his studio is located

I have also presented two variations of another motive: "Slinningsbua" which Terje Fagermo as many other artists have done with different color backgrounds 

Terje Fagermo is also called the "Painter of Light" which these examples show.

I have not enough competence to describe Terje Fagermo´s art in Norwegian or even Global perspective, but for me his colors and moods expressed through the canvas have had an enormous impact of how I see visual arts and how I try to make my own paintings.

I am rude enough to present some of my own paintings in this blogpost . Hopefully some of my blog-friends will see his influence, although I will not trying to compare my own works with Terje Fagermo´s quality art.

Thank you very much for your inspiration Terje.

January 2nd 2026 - The winter has arrived

 After a Christmas without any snow in central Oslo, Norway, I woke up this morning with these images from my Balcony 

The new Year has given us a feeling of normal wintertime although the environment changes are felt strongly here as well as all around the world. 

Happy new Year (Feliz Navidad) to all my blogging friends in Asia, America and Europe. I will try to keep you posted about my life morer frequently in 2026.