I paint to celebrate the beauty around and within us - to inspire gratitude for what I don’t want to take for granted.   

Gratitude is what creating art requires of me, and fosters in me, including for how miraculous our human, natural and spiritual natures are.

My practice explores techniques where I apply paint in multiple layers, with the canvas rotated for gravity to work it in different directions.   

This creates texture, and an illusion of movement that can shift perspectives between two and three dimensions, especially as you walk towards the larger paintings.

The fundamental questions I am grappling with through my practice are:

• Why might we need things to appear more surreal, bold or colourful, to remember how wonderful they actually are?
   
• Why can surrendering control to a powerful force that we know sustains life - like gravity (or Mother Nature, or God) - be so scary?

EVENT

FREE public painting co-lab - open for the duration of the exhibition.

Anyone can add one or more brush strokes, with provided brushes and paint, to a large canvas that will start as a loose sketch or composition. A collaborative painting will emerge by the Sunday, to engage people in a creative process that values diversity, unity and connection.

CONTACT

Email: simonolsen@gmail.com
Instagram: @simonsverreolsen 

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