Distributed Art at Norway Day
The 2008 Festival Distributed Art presentation has expanded to include additional styles and artists. Come experience Photography, Watercolors and Paintings in the café area, just beyond the main stage, and though out the venue.
NORWAY REMEMBERED - PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY THREE NORWEGIAN BORN ARTISTS
Norway with its high latitude produces a unique lighting effect. The relationship between light and nature inspires the native artists to create that which is known to many as "Nordic Art", using a presentation style called "stämning"; meaning a combination of mood and atmosphere.
The 2008 artists capture these moods and the presence of life with their use of color and "stämning". Nature, particularly landscapes, is a recurring theme in much of the presented work.
At the Norway Day Festival, we invite you to experience these works through connected emotions, feelings, desires and recurrent memories.
Read More about the artists:
ELLEN FARIS
Ellen first came from her homeland of Norway as a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines. She married, and has lived in the Bay Area for the past 41 years. She has her own company, Design Plus. Ellen's interest in photography, use of colors and working on the computer got her started on creating digital art.
She started to paint her digital art images and is employing the same technique as she did creating the backdrops, using
cotton canvases and high quality acrylic wall paint. She mixes the colors herself to get the colors she wants and the images are derived from her own photographs, transformed into graphic images on the computer and then freehand drawn and painted onto a blank canvas.
Vivid colors are very much part of Ellen’s work and she expresses her love of the whole color spectrum without restrictions.
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ANNE-INGER LØKEN OSEBERG
Anne Oseberg was born on the west coast of Norway, Syvde, and grew up in Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane, surrounded by spectacular scenery. Her backyard was mountains, fjords, rivers, waterfalls and woodlands. She moved to the United States while in her early 20's and is self-taught as a watercolorist.
She expresses herself with colors, catching moods of special places and moments. She paints a lot "wet into wet" where she can see the colors mingling into a rainbow, using colors in an "uncontrolled" yet "controlled" manner. She also uses a technique called "glazing" where all the wonderful colors shine through each of the subsequent layers, combining designs and compositions.
Anne’s art is exhibited in many places, including a recent exhibition at the Norwegian Seamen’s Church in San Francisco, and her work is found in private collections in the United States and Norway.
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HELENE SOBOL
Helene was born in Stavanger, Norway, a picturesque port surrounded by a landscape known for its breathtaking fjords and majestic mountains. At the age of five, her family moved to Oslo and, during her early teenage years, she lived in the outskirts of Paris where she developed an interest in photography. With several other stops in between, she has resided in San Francisco since 1973.
Helene’s photography includes people, animals, architecture,
landscapes, and close-ups of nature. She often seeks out subjects that reveal details that make for compelling and painterly compositions, some naturalistic, some abstract.
She has exhibited her collection “Norway – Moods and Memories” at the Norway Day Festival and other venues, including the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle.
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NORWAY REMEMBERED - PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY THREE NORWEGIAN BORN ARTISTS
- ELLEN FARIS - Paintings
- ANNE-INGER LØKEN OSEBERG - Watercolors
- HELENE SOBOL - Photography
Norway with its high latitude produces a unique lighting effect. The relationship between light and nature inspires the native artists to create that which is known to many as "Nordic Art", using a presentation style called "stämning"; meaning a combination of mood and atmosphere.
The 2008 artists capture these moods and the presence of life with their use of color and "stämning". Nature, particularly landscapes, is a recurring theme in much of the presented work.
At the Norway Day Festival, we invite you to experience these works through connected emotions, feelings, desires and recurrent memories.
Read More about the artists:
ELLEN FARIS
Ellen first came from her homeland of Norway as a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines. She married, and has lived in the Bay Area for the past 41 years. She has her own company, Design Plus. Ellen's interest in photography, use of colors and working on the computer got her started on creating digital art.
She started to paint her digital art images and is employing the same technique as she did creating the backdrops, using
cotton canvases and high quality acrylic wall paint. She mixes the colors herself to get the colors she wants and the images are derived from her own photographs, transformed into graphic images on the computer and then freehand drawn and painted onto a blank canvas.Vivid colors are very much part of Ellen’s work and she expresses her love of the whole color spectrum without restrictions.
See more
ANNE-INGER LØKEN OSEBERG
Anne Oseberg was born on the west coast of Norway, Syvde, and grew up in Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane, surrounded by spectacular scenery. Her backyard was mountains, fjords, rivers, waterfalls and woodlands. She moved to the United States while in her early 20's and is self-taught as a watercolorist.
She expresses herself with colors, catching moods of special places and moments. She paints a lot "wet into wet" where she can see the colors mingling into a rainbow, using colors in an "uncontrolled" yet "controlled" manner. She also uses a technique called "glazing" where all the wonderful colors shine through each of the subsequent layers, combining designs and compositions.
Anne’s art is exhibited in many places, including a recent exhibition at the Norwegian Seamen’s Church in San Francisco, and her work is found in private collections in the United States and Norway.
See more
HELENE SOBOL
Helene was born in Stavanger, Norway, a picturesque port surrounded by a landscape known for its breathtaking fjords and majestic mountains. At the age of five, her family moved to Oslo and, during her early teenage years, she lived in the outskirts of Paris where she developed an interest in photography. With several other stops in between, she has resided in San Francisco since 1973.
Helene’s photography includes people, animals, architecture,
landscapes, and close-ups of nature. She often seeks out subjects that reveal details that make for compelling and painterly compositions, some naturalistic, some abstract. She has exhibited her collection “Norway – Moods and Memories” at the Norway Day Festival and other venues, including the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle.
See more
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