Oslo Paintings

Almost every painter in the world use their home surrounding as possible motives. So am I.

Buildings and landmarks in Oslo have been backgrounds for many paintings during my efforts to create a ArneA-style. But my head is so full of different intensions so I do not know if my followers can look at an image and say: "This is  ArneA "

However, in this blogpost I will gather some of my Oslo paintings and thus be up to the blog-followers to decide which is or should be the typical ArneA-style.

I start the presentation showing Oslo City Hall

These paintings are done from Aker Brygge (west) and Pappabuene (east) in an area called Vika.

This painting is also  from the City Hall Quays in Vika showing the steamer "Børøysund" and one of the Cruise liners at the Akershus seaside.

This one is also from the seaside at PiperVika, but showing the Akershus Fortress  in front of Ekeberg Hill

On the other side of Akershus we find the new city development area ; Bjørvika.  Here I have tried to catch my expression of the new sky line Barcode early in the development process.

The Parliament building from 1866 in the middle of Oslo centre at Karl Johan is made in black and white like a sketch

 Higher up the Karl Johan we find the old University Library and the Royal Castle at the top.

Covering the Fortress, City Hall, University, Royal Castle and the Parliament I was only missing the spiritual or religious power factor in our society. Oslo Cathedral and the Courtyard are covered on this painting from "Storgata"

A complete different style of buildings can be found at Tjuvholmen  located on a peninsula sticking out from Aker Brygge into the Oslofjord. It is located east of Filipstad and south of Vika. 

Oslo has a great area around the city called Marka where recreation or physical activities can be done either by walking, running, biking or swimming. This is from Sognsvann 

Mentioning physical activity an image of the pride of Oslo; Vålerenga and Freddy dos Santos also must be included.

 The last three paintings I present in this blogpost is from our (now Rikke´s) city cottage area where I first started my painting carieer. Our garden on top and below our neighbours red cottage

and finally a self portrait in front of out great Fagerbusk (Kolkwitzia Amabilis)