The second half of 2026 covers the warm months of July, August and the beginning of September.
My works are thus results of many hours in front of the easel at the balcony. Motives from our summer holiday tour this year along the south-western part of Norway, but also from sketches made previously, have been expressed on paper and canvas.
The painting above "Yellow Hat" or "På strandpromenaden" 70x50 was made during the first heatwave in Oslo
The painting below "Glare" or "Gjenskinn" 60x50 was also among the first paintings after Midsummer made of acrylic on canvas.
Then I returned to working with acrylic on paper, and made at least 4 sketches or paintings.
A replica or imitation after the conceptual and visual artist Marianne Heske
"Selfie" or "Mann ved vindu" 60x50 with something of the Widerberg-family style
"Soft-boiled egg yolk" or "Bløtkokt eggeplomme" in P. Picasso style
And the last,
"Alien visitor" or "Utenomjordisk besøk" 70x50 Acrylic on Paper like the early J.Weidemann or Thore Heramb paintings
Back to Acrylic on Canvas
As long as my competence in drawing is at least BAD, I return to the landscape and color play in front of my easel.
"Sunset" or "Solnedgang" 40x50
"Winter is coming" or "Mørket truer" 50x40
"Summer Sunday" or "Sommer søndag" 30x40 which also can be seen as the mountains at Bergsjø Norway
Then I made some changes on previous works
"Autumn leaves" or "Høstblader" 70x50
"Landscape" or "Tyskholmen" 40x50
"The east Shieling " or "Auststølen" 60x50 with motiv from Sunnmøre Museum, Ålesund
"The Blue house " or "Thalberg's gamle hus" 40x50. Also a motive from Ålesund
The folowing 5 paintings are all memories from our roundtrip by car in southwest Norway.
"Beach at Jæren" or "Strandparti på Jæren" 50x60
"Boathouses" or "Rorbuer Rosendal" 50x60
"Eidfjord 3" 50x70 made after at lest 3 previous attempts to make an expression of the light among the mountains and the fjord
On our return to Oslo we passed the mountain "Ustetind" 1376 height, but this image is not a correct copy of what I saw from the car window
"The peak" or "Fjelltoppen" 60x50 acrylic on canvas
As every other painters; professionals or autodidacts, born in the city of Ålesund we all have a habit to make paintings from the most beautiful city in Norway and the surroundings.
"Blood beech" or "Hagelins game blodbøk" 60x50 is motivated by the garden across the street from my childhood kitchen window
"Stormy weather" or "Det stormer på Alnes" 50x60 is from my daughters first visit to a hard southwestern storm by the North Sea
"Landscape" or "Fjell og fjord" 50x60 is based upon the light over Mountain Sula.
I am a fan of the TV-show Ancient Aliens on History Channel. There they try to find examples and tracks of extraterrestrial visits on our planet Tellus. Their sources are stone structures dated many thousands of years ago, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, rock carvings and myths among cultures and writings in old religious documents. Therefore I made this painting based on an altarpiece I saw in Iceland years ago and named it:
"We are not alone" or "Vi er ikke alene og har aldri vært det" 50x40
Next chapter:
"Not my Style" or "Ikke meg" 50x70 is a painting that only covers the process I have been through since I made my first real painting after visiting the Picasso Museum in Antibes, France. There I found out that the great artist also used paper (bølgepapp) when he developed some of his paintings.
For me it was an opportunity to learn, repeat, remember how to use acrylic and brushes on paper again and again without having to invest more than necessary in materials and equipment.
The Ebbinghaus teorem or forgetting curve together with works by and books about Heramb, Picasso, Munch and my hometown artists Heske, Opdahl and Fagermo, have made me the painting artist I am today. (Many other artists too btw)
The title and image above was a result after my daughter sent me photos of works made by Basquiat (1960 - !988) and other at The Broad in Los Angeles, USA.
Maybe my Portrait of an Artist from 1917 can have some similarity with Basquiat´s paintings.
Back to this season production.
From holiday memories on my iPhone, through A4-sketches on paper to acrylic paintings on canvas, the following images have been worked out.
"Mot Reineskarvet" and "Bergsjø" 40x50,
and once again "I do not paint what I see, I paint what I saw"
The last two paintings this season may be something different again, but please do not tell me what not to do. Tell me how I can improve and still have fun by developing paintings full of coloristic style.
My second-last painting this season was an attempt to see what I could make in Picasso style and maybe also the Norwegian artist L. Borgen’s cubism-inspired colorful paintings.
If you think there is a similarity with real persons, my be you are using the new AI glasses or only dreaming
"La Familia" or "Kjærester" 40x50 Acrylic on Canvas
As written above in this blog post I have from time to time a desire to make something totally different from my normal painting works. May be that is a way to find and create my own style, but the legacy from great painters (among others Juan Miró) has also given me inspiration and courage to show others how important Ancient Aliens have been in my understanding of the world history.
There are many symbolic expressions in the following painting and it is up to you to interpret the meaning.
"We have never been alone" or "Arven fra Fortidens besøkene" 60x50
