Gudrun Benedikta ELIASDOTTIR
L-8272 Mamer, rue Jean Schneider 35
1963 in Island geboren.
1983 - 1987 Icelandic School of Art and Crafts. Anschliessend als Kunsterzieherin tätig.
1999 - 2000 Studienaufenthalt in Südfrankreich.
Winter 2005 - 2006 "Artist in Residence" in Vallauris (F). Im Sommer 2006 Umzug nach Luxemburg. Seither dort als freischaffende Malerin und Designerin tätig.
"I have been painting stones for some time now and playing with double meaning in my paintings and titles. Coming from Iceland where there are still stories about the "hidden people " living in the rocks, in my work I´m dealing with nature, the nature of man, man in nature and my nature. The paintings are under the strong spell of Icelandic nature. Extreme opposites like fire and ice, black deserts against the glacier, these strong contrasts affect me. The Icelandic highlands are unbelievable and it doesn´t matter how vivid my paintings are, they will never be more colourful than the real thing. The themes are all from my imagination, a collection of memory snap shots, blended with thoughts about the human race. Apart from the rocks, I´m trying to get a hold of painting water, still, running and frozen.
Most of the paintings are acrylics on canvas but I have also been working with pigment bought in the South of France a long time ago. Making " patine au vin " out of white wine, eggs, milk, sugar and pigments, a recipe from a French book I bought with the pigments. Using white wine to paint makes much more sense here near the Mosel than in Iceland"
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