Watercolor & Ink
5×5 inches
My “Kjorlaug Farm” pictures are odes to the old way of working the land. Since at least as far back at 1780 The Kjorlaug Farm was home to generations of cultivators in my family tree, bringing life up from the dirt. I’m imagining the land in Rosemaling style.
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Watercolor & Ink
4×6 inches
My “City Lines” pictures are musings on the way people view the world through wires. I have found an opposing sense of division and connection in my observations. But the beauty is there for those who see, especially in cities.
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4×4 inches. Watercolor & Ink
”Three” in Norwegian
I adore triangles. Need I say more?
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4×6 inches Watercolor & Ink
Means “Soft Wind” in Norwegian.
Rosemaling is the folk art that moves like the wind, unbound, flowing as it wills. Every Rosemaling piece I paint is shifting as I create, then landing in a different place than I expect.
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The desire to rosemal all my walls, doors, and ceilings prompted me to create a series of designs I can envision on cupboard doors in an old farm house in Norway. Rosemaling represents to me creativity in poverty—to meander down an old barn wall with paint strokes is an act of resistance against the darkness of that room. For this reason, Norwegian Rosemaling keeps coming out of me every time I sit with my brush. It is a gift, a sword my Norwegian grandmother gave me to fight the long nights with.
Watercolor and Ink. 8×12 inches.
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In the old Norwegian homes they painted on every door frame and cupboard, making the mundane flourish for all who lived there.
Watercolor and Ink. 8×12 inches.
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The intertwining of two grandmothers — one Swedish seamstress & one Norwegian painter, the stitches and strokes of their lives quilted into mine.
Displayed and sold at the Square Halo Gallery, Lancaster, PA, for the Inklings Conference “Ordinary Saints.”
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Brita Olsdatter was part of the farm community around Kjorlaug, Norway and one of the women in my family line that made a way for my existence. She was my great great great grandmother. Speaking her name with my art means she was not forgotten. I honor her existence and enjoyed imagining her story, gifting, and breath in Norway. —Kristin
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By Kristin Kjorlaug
Watercolor and Ink – 4×4 inches
Lukris Von Krog Pederadotter was part of the farm community around Kjorlaug, Norway and one of the women in my family line that made a way for my existence. She was my great great great grandmother. Speaking her name with my art means she was not forgotten. I honor her existence and enjoyed imagining her story, gifting, and breath in Norway. —Kristin
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By Kristin Kjorlaug
Watercolor and Ink – 4×4 inches
Eliza Torsen was part of the farm community around Kjorlaug, Norway and one of the women in my family line that made a way for my existence. She was my great great great grandmother. Speaking her name with my art means she was not forgotten. I honor her existence and enjoyed imagining her story, gifting, and breath in Norway. —Kristin
If the title does not say [SOLD] then this piece is still available. I am willing to do prints of [SOLD] artwork only. Contact me if interested in Eliza.