Paintings first half of the season 2026

As usual I only have the possibility to make paintings when the weather in Oslo has said goodbye to the chilly temperatures, and it is nice to sit in front of my easel at the balcony.

 

But, when I first start making images out of ideas and sketches, the production moves rapidly and I have during the May and June months made 25 paintings with Acrylic on Canvas and Paper.

In this blog I will present paintings sorted by Canvas first and then Paper-works although I have produced  them at different time during these weeks. 

I always hope that my blog friends will give me comments (and regards) on my painting development, and of course if you would like to have any of them on your walls, do not hesitate to make contact.

Works on Canvas:

(Tuntreet) The Yard tree 40x50

(Kaikanten) The Quayside 50x70

(Naftadjupet) The Naphtha deep 40x50

(Tomt lager - Levende hav ?) Empty storeroom - Living sea ? 50x70

(Fiskemottak) Fish reception 50x70

(Epletrær) Apple garden 70x54

(Bratch) Viola da Braccio 50x60

(Musikanter) Musicians 60x50

(Kongebesøk) The King Visit 30x40

(Bispekåpen) The Bishop´s Robe 50x50

(Kaffekoppen) The coffee cup 50x50

(Lille speil på veggen der, h...) The mirror 50x70

(Måneskinn) Claire de Lune 50x60

(Fjordbygd) Fjord area 50x50

(Holmer og Skjær) Islets and reefs 40x50

(Mellom Himmel og Helvete) Between Heaven and Hell 30x40

(Blåmandag) Hangover 70x50

(Sprekker skydekket ?) Will the clouds crack ? 55x70

Paper works: 

These paintings are in different dimensions

(Den Grønn kledde) The Green-Clad 

(I syning om) The old Mountains 

(Brosundet) The marina

(Veggen) The Wall

(Blått hav så langt du ser) Blue Ocean all over

(Hustak) In der Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister

The title of the last painting may give some direction for the second half of 2026 

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.

Paintings 2025 Acrylic on Canvas and Paper

 The painting season is over for 2025.

A lot of works have been produced and I feel that I am developing my skill every time I grab the brush and put colors on canvas. This summer I have also went back to my first way of making paintings by working with acrylic on paper. It is cheaper and can be seen as sketches for future works on canvas

In this blogpost I will first present some of these paperworks and then return to the canvas works.

Summer night

Female and Male Figures

Abstraction

My canvas works started with som adjustments of basement stored paintings where I found it necessary to improve the result if they should be put on walls here and there.

Moonlight

Act

Pride

Then I went back to my everlasting obsession to make variations of landscapes without any particular location (I paint what I saw and not what I see) 

The rough nature of Norway´s western coastline with mountains and fjords and the barren landscapes far north makes many possibilities for expressing my mind although some may found it close to their own homes.

Trapper´s hut

Going west

Boathouses

Mountain shelter 

Fjord mist

Nature can also be expressed through abstract and colorful paintings. I have made four images representing the four seasons winter, springtime, summer and autumn. They are not necessarily connected and have individual titles.

Cold Ocean

Nøkken

Summer cottage

Tree cluster

Sometimes I also want to go back to my very first experiments of making paintings by using cubism as a reference for reaching a free colorism like some of the paintings above.

Water

Trees

Mountains

Mathematics

This summer I therefore (inspired by the TV series about Ancient Aliens) I made an expression of a UFO leaving a faraway star.

Red Moon

Because I am really bad at making real portrait of living persons I sometimes make expressions like masks. This summer I had a canvas that was too narrow and too long for another landscape so another mask was worked out

The sad mask

A photo of my only male grandchild Henrik when he was performing with his guitar before an audience in England was also used as inspiration for a painting without being able to identify the face 

Henrik and Bamseklem

Calligraphic expressions is another way of making art. I have been given a Chinese name since I stayed in Singapore 30 years ago documented in my old business card. Why not put my calligraphic surname on canvas by using my ovn paintbrushes, was the meaning behind my closing painting from summer 2025.

An Liang Sheng