Welcome to the exhibition opening Friday 30 October 18:00 – 20:00.
On display until Sunday 8 November.
Opening hours:
Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00 – 16:00.
Thursday 12:00 – 18:00.
Monday closed.
GRETHE UNSTAD: Undertoner
The artist writes: I work with painting using water-based techniques, such as tempera and more recently also watercolour.
The luminosity and colouring of colour are central to my works. Tempera and watercolour give a very clarity and richness to the colour, and a sense of space arises in the colour surface itself that I do not achieve in the same way using other painting media.
I use simple compositions so that colour can take centre stage. Through the painterly process I tune the colour tones against each other until I achieve the desired expression and the picture surface becomes «self-supporting».
In the paintings there is a tension between the transparent and the opaque. This gives a dynamic and an interplay to the colour expression and composition, and the picture surfaces appear to breathe with life.
I strive for a stillness and tension in the expression in individual works, between the various works, between the various expressions and in how the paintings relate to the exhibition space.
Grethe Unstad, b. 1959, grew up in Stjørdal.
Grethe Unstad received her art education from Kunstskolen i Kabelvåg 1983-85 and Vestlandets Kunstakademi, graduating in 1992. She lives and works in Bergen, with a studio at Møllendalsveien 17.
Artist's website: http://www.gretheunstad.com
