Sola Arena - Mastering

Can you remember the moment you finally “broke the code” and were able to find your balance on your bike? No need for support wheels anymore! Or when you, after hours and hours, trying to teach your kids the art of bicycling, you could let go and let them ride into another level of independence.

Pure magic! This is what I have tried to capture and portrey in the meeting room called “Mastering”.

There are two paintings, one with the young girl riding away from us with her support wheels. The same girl is facing us on a bike without support wheels, where her father has just let go and she is excitedly finding her balance.

finished painting - father letting go of the girl, without support wheels // ferdig maleri - far slipper jenta, uten støttehjul

finished painting - girl with support wheels // ferdig maleri - jente med støttehjul

Sola Arena - Strength

This meeting room has been a bit of a headache for me. The paintings are big and powerful, as it suits a room called “Strength”. One of the paintings ended up, yet a little bit too large, even for this room. And I have worked it, overworked it, worked it yet again. I have spent so much time on it that I have refused to admit my overscaling and tried to insist on my “error” in the hope of making it right. That never works…

I ended up on a ladder with a sanding machine, sanding down my insisting lines. And for now, it is still unresolved.

More information about this specific painting will come in due time..

But the room will consist of 4 paintings, and I have focused on “Strength” and a little bit of the history of Sola. The first painting is inspired by the Stone Age. Sola has several findings from this period. It is even suggested that the oldest, Norwegian village was to be found in Sola!

Sola Arena - Flow

Early this year I received good news! I was selected to do a public decoration in Norways first velodrome (indoor cycling hall). I will decorate the meeting rooms, and a couple of more locations I will share in the process. The decoration will consist of painted blind drawings on the walls.

All of the meeting rooms have specific names and I have created sketches based on the various names. The first meeting room I started with is called “Flow” and is a venue for different activities, i.e. “Rookie”, a group for kids and teenagers doing crafting projects.

To me, flow is the feeling of loosing myself in artistic expressions. The painting in the room is of a girl drawing on a piece of paper - and opposite of the painting is her finished drawing.

This is only the beginning of the project - more to come!

ps. I apologise for the crazy image of me - just to give you the impression of the size - and what too much work can do to your sanity 😅