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Elisabeth Handelsby

Elisabeth Handelsby (b.1982) grew up on an island on the southeast coast of Norway. The closeness to nature and the ocean which she grew up with is something that is still reflected in her work. Always drawing and painting as a child, she later went on to study at the Norwegian School of Creative Studies, and Oslo and Akershus University College.

Her main medium of expression is painting, and her style seeks to combine figurative realism with painterly expressionism.

Handelsby has shown her work in several group and solo exhibitions.

She currently lives and works in Oslo.

I work with figurative paintings in acrylic and mixed media. My painting process starts with a photographic reference, but is very intuitive and brings the painting through several color phases. It is a constant back and forth of building up and breaking down, where all of the layers painted on top of each other are important to create life for the finished result.

Contrasts in both motif and color are important to me, and I often try to make the images balance between the beautiful and the unsettling, delicate and brutal at one time.The motifs circle around topics such as the human situation and our relationship with the world around us. Our relationship with nature has become a common thread in recent years. I look at my work as small glimpses of stories, where the viewer can form their own whole.

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