Musings about life, art, safaris and living in the wild.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
The artist's aim...
...after lots of practice, is to be able to believe what you see, then draw it with enough conviction to communicate to other people what you have seen...
Mariane Høstmark Tveter is a Norwegian artist born in 1966. She lived in the bush in Masai Mara and Samburu, Kenya, between 2005 and 2012, after which she realocated back to her native country Norway.
She studied fine arts in Sweden and Norway, and continued with studies in academic subjects such as Art History, History of Ideas, Classical Mythology and Philosophy at the University of Oslo and in Rome.
She has been a member of the Norwegian Professional Artists Association since 1998 and has exhibited in Norway, Sweden, Italy and Kenya. She is represented in collections in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Holland, England, Kenya and the US.
Working with landscapes and "funky animals" inspired by her life in the bush, her style can be described as romantic, figurative, passionate and humourous.
Lately she has taken an interest in the late 19th century Central European bohemian literature and its Nordic roots, and has spent quite too much time reading difficult and obscure books on various subjects, enjoying every page of it, hoping to turn it to art in her own way one day.
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