Looking back at 2025
“The Light” (Herring Gulls), watercolor and gouache on paper, 76x106cm.
2025 was probably the most intense year of my life so far. After 5 solo exhibitions in Norway and Sweden, plus many group shows and other projects, I feel like I don’t know where all these months went. I was still making plans in my head to go out and enjoy the autumn migration of seabirds when I realized that December was already coming to an end. When I tried to rearrange my watercolor palette the other day, it had become so rusty from all the water and wet paint that it started to fall apart. It has hardly had any time to dry during the last years.
The high work load of 2025 was, of course, the result of many good things – I got many opportunities that I could not decline, and all exhibitions were more successful than I had imagined. I hardly had any time to realize how wonderful these events were before I had to throw myself into the next task. Looking back, this year has given me all I could have dreamed of as a young painter. I want to say a big thank you to all who has supported me, and especially to my gallerists at Galleri Torekov, Soli Brug, Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner, Mollbrinks, Kliger, Art2 and Agardh & Tornvall. And of course to my publishers at Gyldendal and Bonnier.
Im looking forward to new experiences in 2026!
View of the exhibition at Mollbrinks Gallery in Uppsala, January-February 2025.
From the exhibition at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner, Oslo in April-may 2025. Read more about it in their magazine Preview and in this article by NRK: Fuglekunstneren
Foto: Dag E. Thorenfeldt
Three works on colored paper from the exhibition “Hjemsted” at Hvaler Kunstforening in May-June. You can read more about the exhibition in this interview by Fredrikstad Blad or in this video interview by Viking TV.
From my exhibition at Galleri Torekov, July-August. The triptych “Window to the beach” (100x300cm) is one of my biggest watercolors. Read more about the show in this article by BjäreNu.
My triptych “Storm” was shown by Mollbrinks Gallery at their stand during the Grand Antique, Art and Design fair at Liljevalchs, Stockholm in October 2025. Gallery Agardh & Tornvall showed two smaller works at the fair as well.
A well-used pallet ready for new paintings in the new year – without color rearrangements…:-)