Berit Førland

Similitude; as in a person resembling another, resembling something – anything. After a long summer and some procrastination a new series on canvas, ( 80 x 110 cm ) is finally seeing the light of day.

This new work in the Charm series venture a little astray – it should be seen as an abstraction and an examination of the Charm idea. Balloon Charms also examine color and texture.

I have created a portfolio of words which both have been descriptive and fascilitating for my artistic process. Entities/charms/concoction – I have worked with concocted entities, because I wanted to explore the idea of constructing things with distinct and independent existence and then add an element of randomness. In Owl Charm as well as Monkey […]

My love affair with words like entities, scraps, and concoction has the same nature as any other love affair with ups and downs, but also blissful redemption when the process takes you to a richer and deeper place. The idea and addition of charms to my work process has created a fun and fulfilling place […]

This post features the last piece in my Landscape with Charms series, as well as the first piece within the title Landscape with Scraps. My idea was to take the unwanted, the leftovers, that which is left behind and make it my new entities. I have placed these new entities in a floating patchwork landscape, […]

In these days I often find myself venturing back to old ideas, rethinking, reshaping and reusing them in my current work. This is a new and very fulfilling situation for me. When I first reconnected with my art, I experienced myself in a process which only moved forward, now I experience the ability to venture […]

I continue to develop my newly found interest for charms. My entities have progressed into charms. This change was born out of a desire to add mythical value to the entities.