Protestaktion udenfor Den Frie/Protest Action outside Den Frie
I det Røde Hjørne “En ung håbefuld kunstner (med maske) stod udenfor til efterårsudstillingens1 fernisering og malede et billede. Her fortæller den skotsk/danske multikunstner hvorfor.” Hekla Hekla2 Den 11. september husker jeg tilbage på forrige år, hvor jeg indsendte fem biografiske portrætter til KE. Alt hvad jeg indsendte blev afvist uden mulighed for tilbagemelding. […]
Emotion series 2
After the Frelloist portrait it has been hard to get back into painting. Painting The Frelloist/Frelloisten drained me because it was like cracking a really, really hard code, or like spewing everything you are and have into one performanc,e or like fighting goliath. Nothing but your best will do. Regardless of the reception of the work, […]
Fernisering, Foredrag og Underholdning nu på torsdag 28. aug i Filmby Aarhus!
FERNISERING: SKÆVE EKSISTENSER PÅ OLIE – 19 PORTRÆTTER FRA CHRISTIANIA. FERNISERING OG FOREDRAG I FILMBY AARHUS TORSDAG 28. AUGUST. Leah Robb, Filmby Aarhus og Mediedokken inviterer til fernisering og foredrag i Filmbyen 23. Torsdag 28. august Foredrag kl. 15.30 Fernisering kl. 16.00 Underholdning: Ocean van Vleck, der selv er gammel Christianit Leah Merete Robb er […]
Christiania Portraits to hang in Århus Filmbyen (Film Town)
This painting and 17 other portraits of people from Christiania will soon hang on the walls of Århus’ film town. Watch this wall space!
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The Demonstration
Yesterday I fell upon another demonstration for ‘Peace in Gaza’. First I just listened. Then a thank you rang out to all the artists who had agreed to take part and I thought, “what am I doing? Get to work!” Below you can see my artist’s impression. There was more than one politician or speaker who dared bring a […]
Storkespringvandet
I went out in the baking heat to paint the ‘stork fountain’ known as Storkespringvandet, in the center of Copenhagen. I started by smearing leftover paint from my previous painting onto the 38x46cm canvas and then pulling the paint off with a cloth where the highlights were to be. Paint on, paint off, paint on, […]
Sketching Wrecks
I went out to paint a couple of days ago and made a conscious decision to paint something because i found it interesting, not because there would be a market for it. I came across a capsized boat next to Refshalevej near Christiania. I thought, there’s a good motif with difficult angles, curves and foreshortening. I’ll […]
Making Faces
I was visiting my friend and colleague, Otto Frello. I had a lump of clay with me and made a couple of clay faces while chatting to him. They were a bit of fun and I feel like making a few more expressive nonsense faces 🙂 Watch this space: […]
Seaside sketching
Today was a strange day. I was at the beach in Amager – Copenhagen and had my sketchbook with me. First I went for at swim and it was lovely! Then I had the bright idea of trying to take a little canvas into the waves with me and draw them from within the water! I started […]