A series of dark paintings inspired by walking the dog Lukka in the suburbs of Reykjavik during the dark winter months. Trying to capture the famous Iceland winter darkness, “skammdegi”, on canvas. Shown at 2 Ravens Gallery, Reykjavik, September 2015.
Text in exhibition catalogue:
Outside your house
in the middle of the night
while you are sleeping
an artist is making a painting of it
He paints it on the darkness
laying color upon the night’s surface
With fumbling brush movements
(that remind you of the subtle ripples
a fishing line makes in the ocean)
he tries to capture what’s hidden inside it
