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I am an Icelandic multi-media artist with a fascination with the way music, memory, and the physical world are interrelated.
I explore the parallels between the musical and the physical world – between the life experiences and performance. My artwork involves transformations between the two.
The paintings are altered or reworked existing pieces of very common unsigned decorative artwork. These types of paintings became popular in the early 70s, and made hugely popular by Artist and teachers such as Bob Ross. Now commonly found in second hand charity shops.
Sometimes I paint onto a bought piece of painting and sometimes I paint from a photo or paint in the style of found piece.
I then deconstruct the canvas by cutting it up and resembling it onto a board to form some sort of a rhythm.
My background is in music and throughout my visual art practice I have always been fascinated by how music is both a visual and a mathematical phenomena.
The cut up canvas is mounted on a carved out board. This both adds a three dimensional plane to the artwork and also serves as "counterpoint" of sorts in this rhythmic construction.
I like to bring together the warm, innocent and nostalgic feel of these "thrift store" painting against the calculated modern approach in constructing the final piece.
