Watercolor course with visual artist
Solveig Ane Kirkaune Øksendal
Solveig Ane Kirkaune Øksendal is a visual artist and works mainly with figurative pencil drawing and watercolor. In the watercolor workshop she will show how she proceeds when working with watercolors. Participants will receive an introduction and tips on how to master this technique, as well as practical things such as tension and different brush and paper types.
Øksendal works in large format and likes to let the subject move outside the sheet. Without sketching, she works the subject forward based on a clear idea of what she wants to depict. Using mirrors, mobile cameras or images from the internet, she obtains the material she needs for what she wants to depict. The body, black humor, and references to both popular culture and art history are elements that recur in her work.
How do you work out shapes while retaining the light in the watercolor?
Join a two-day workshop with visual artist Solveig Ane Kirkaune Øksendal who will give an introduction to her way of working with watercolor, as well as tips and tricks for handling this fluid and somewhat unwieldy medium. For example, when do you paint wet on wet, and when do you have to wait for one layer to dry before painting the next?
The workshop is suitable for both beginners who want to explore the medium for the first time, as well as for those who want inspiration and impulses to continue working with the medium in what may be different and new ways.
TIME: June 10th and 11th, 12-4pm
PLACE: Trafo Kunsthall
REGISTRATION: via post@trafokunsthall.no by May 21st.
PRICE: 150,-
VISP COURSE IN VISIBILITY
AND SELF-PRESENTATION
Course leader Maja Hattvang.
Photo: Johanne Log.
WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE 10.30 - 15.00 ON TRAFO KUNSTHALL
VISP (Production Unit for Visual Arts) in collaboration with Buskerud Visual Artists, Trafo Kunsthall , the Visual Artists of Akershus and the Norwegian Craftsmen Viken are pleased to present the first course in a series of courses that will be held for artists in Viken during 2023!
Welcome to the communication course! Maja Hattvang from St. Hans Kommunikasjon guides you through the basic principles for good communication of your own practice, across digital and analog channels (including social media). We talk about how to set relevant goals, make good target group assessments and use the right tools. The course takes into account that participants may have limited experience with digital platforms. We work for 4 hours plus a lunch break, and with embedded exercises based on the participants' own practice. Everyone gets templates and tools afterwards.
St. Hans Kommunikasjon was established by writer and curator Johanne Nordby Wernø in 2019, as the country's first agency specifically focused on the art field. We have assisted both large clients such as KORO, the Norwegian Arts Council and several regional museums, medium-sized exhibition spaces such as Kunsthall Trondheim, Unge Kunstneres Samfund and Tromsø Kunstforening, and a number of individual artists. Maja Hattvang is a communications advisor at St. Hans. She is an art writer, journalist and copywriter, with experience including as head of digital marketing at the publishing house Cappelen Damm.
The event is free.Registration via email to arild@visp.no
Cultural Expression // OUTSIDER ART ON DIKEMARK
- FROM TABOO TO CANON?
Croesus. Gouache on paper.
Photo: Jens Hamran
MONDAY JUNE 19TH IN DRAMMEN CULTURE CENTER
The area around Dikemark sykehus in Asker is falling into disrepair. At the same time, there is enormous potential for value creation based on art and culture for the people who will live there and use the place. Welcome to a breakfast meeting about how outsider art can be an important part of the upcoming local development.
We ask questions about the future of Dikemark, who will take responsibility and the bill!
Presentations and panel discussion with:
Anne Siv Falkenberg Pedersen (curator/producer) Trafo Kunsthall )
Maria Knutzen (leader) Dikemark psykiatriske sykehusmuseum (, OUS)
Simone Ritter (director of the museum Trastad Collections/National Center for Outsider Art)
Lene Conradi (mayor of Asker kommune )
Christian Hintze Holm (Head of Department Cultural Heritage,
The cove fylkeskommune )
Speaker: Elise Hatlø (advisor cultural life, Asker kommune )
Read more about the event here: https://www.kulturytring.no/.../outsider-art-pa-dikemark.../
ABOUT CULTURAL EXPRESSION
For the second time, cultural Norway is coming together to put art and culture on the agenda in the election campaign – in the cultural world's answer to Arendal Week. Cultural Expression Drammen will be held from 19 to 21 June 2023.
