Artist Statement

Ingvill Gaarder is a contemporary landscape painter. She is a graduate of Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UK). After traveling extensively and living abroad in London for eight years she settled down in Norway where she now lives and works.

When I start painting I have a vision of a season, a specific colour palette, and a potential shape or form representing land or water. Initially, I apply multiple layers of paint in an intuitive and spontaneous manner, which is the most enjoyable phase of the process. During this stage, the artwork undergoes significant transformations in composition, color, and overall design. As I progress, I transition into a refining phase, which is a more deliberate and contemplative process that occurs as the painting approaches completion. My works have typically exhibited a tranquil quality and incorporate a sense of energy and movement. 

I am informed by the works of Turner and Constable and I believe that visual language has a potent power, like music or literature and it has the ability to communicate and transform. I look at my work and process as a personal expression of the unconscious, dreams and the immediate emotional.