Aase Birkhaug - The Rose Garden

Aase Birkhaug

T h e No r w e g i a n Pa i n t e r o f F l o w e r s

The Rose Garden

International Confederation of Art Critics

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Front cover: “Rose in Universe” Tempera and gold, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

by Aase Birkhaug

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Aase Birkhaug “ La alt eder gjør skje i kjærlighet « “ Everything you do do it with your heart” (The Bible Korint 1, 16.14)

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ICAC

International Confederation of Art Critics

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Aase Birkhaug

The Norwegian Flower Painter

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Spring in Universe 2016 acrylic on canvas 27x25 cm

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Contents The Artist

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‘Floral Fantasies’

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‘Poetic Petals’ The Artist Timothy Warrington, International Confederation of Art Critics

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Christopher Rosewood, International Confederation of Art Critics

Nature’s Calling ‘Floral Fantasies’ Christopher Rosewood, International Confederation of Art Critics

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Artwork Analysis ‘Poetic Petals’ Karen Lappon, International Confederation of Art Critics

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Nurturing with Nature: An Interview with Aase Birkhaug Nature’s Calling Erin Stobie, Outlet Magazine

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Exhibitions Queen of Roses Artwork Dr. Salvatore Analysis Russo

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Awards Spectral Celebrations Nurturing An Interview with Aase Birkhaug Press Release, with RuthieNature: Tucker, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery New York List of Works

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Romancing the Rose Press Release, Ruthie Tucker, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery New York Exhibitions

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Art critique Awards

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List critique of Works Art

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Art critique

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Christopher Rosewood, International Confederation of Art Critics

Timothy Warrington, International Confederation of Art Critics

Christopher Rosewood, International Confederation of Art Critics

Karen Lappon, International Confederation of Art Critics

Erin Stobie, Outlet Magazine

Sandro Serradifalco Milano Vittorio Sgarbi

Heinz Playner, Paks Gallery

Elmadani Belmadani

Princess of Roses

Edited by the International Confederation of Art Critics Carlo Greco, M.A.D Gallery

Inside the Artist’s Mind

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Exhibitions

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Awards & Achievements Edited by the International Confederation of Art Critics

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List of Works

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Aase Birkhaug makes explicit and firm on a support the varied range of feelings that flowers convey, in a symphony of color combinations that you do not it is perhaps foreign to the experience gained by the artist as therapist.

A slow travel, even in this case, conducted in the depth of the perfumed corollas, and perhaps even in his own unfathomable intimacy.

Elizabeth Papone Civic Museums of Genoa Director of the Documentation Centre

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The Artist Believing that surroundings can influence one’s health and mind, the painter and physiotherapist Aase Birkhaug has combined her two passions by reproducing Roses for a soothing effect.

The Norwegian painter Aase Birkhaug fell in love with flowers, nature, and the Universe when she was a child, since the age of six. She began to study art and attended art courses when she was thirteen and from that moment she is in a continuous artistic evolution.

During her creative journey, she naturally merged the three factors that have always defined her life: the care of her patients’ mental state, the profound fascination towards the aesthetic beauty of botany and her innate artistic inclinations and skills. In fact, as a professional physiotherapist with the knowledge that the colours have an effect on the sensory system, Aase Birkhaug transformed the waiting room of her physiotherapy office into an art exhibition made of her creations, and she detected an influence on the patient’s mental state.

This beneficial effect is perceived by the artist firsthand: “I discovered several years ago that Roses have a positive effect on me, almost like healing, and the combination of the smell and the sight feels like a meditation, bringing about a certain calmness.. this is something I try to reflect in my paintings.”

Aase Birkhaug’s family roots testimony a generation of creative souls that inspired her artistic pathway: from Anna Sofie Brunchorst Ibsen, who run the painting school in Bergen (Norway) in the early ‘900, to the famous poet Henrik Ibsen, passing through her grandfather Harald Ibsen and her aunt Borghild Ibsen.

Aase Birkhaug is today an established artist who exhibits in prestigious exhibitions all over the world, such as the London Art Biennale and the Florence Biennale. Her art can be viewed in many art books and collections in Europe and she received numerous award.

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Rose in Autumn I Tempera on Canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

My Roses Charcoal on paper 32 x 44 cm, 2009

Rose in Autumn II Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

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Floral Fantasies Christopher Rosewood International Confederation of Art Critics

Aase Birkhaug is an extremely talented artist who reinterprets, analyses and gives new life to the exquisite and time-honoured artistic genre of floral still-life. This expressive Norwegian artist has reconnected to the Romantic style, communicating a finesse lost to digital imaging. Birkhaug gracefully combines the magnificence of tradition and the impetus of modernity, infusing her blooming compositions with eloquent insertions of modern taste.

Returning to classical inanimate depictions, Birkhaug not only shows that a reactionist approach can enhance an established artistic canon and invigorate our understanding of human psyche, but also electrifies a fascinating subject that nowadays has been often put aside and misunderstood.

Thus, due to a profound understanding of the mind, Birkhaug has the ability to give new life to an apparently unchangeable genre, postulating that humans are eager to be surrounded by absolute and pure beauty, and thus pervading the spectator’s eye with whirlwinds of vibrant and unspoiled blossoms, preeminently roses.

Throughout the History of Art, the rose has always had an allegorical tradition of an almost unparalleled power. Symbol of charm, passion, eternal promise, but also of time passing, vulnerability and even death. The rose represents all the divergent and mysterious shades of human mortality and is one of the most sensual creations of Mother Nature, a flower with a thousand facets and nuances. An absolute oxymoron lives underneath its blossoms: delicacy and mystery, softness

Opposite: My Roses Charcoal paper, 32 x 44 cm, 2009

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Rose in Autumn I Tempera on Canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

Rose II Rosaret Abborette Watercolor, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

Rose in Autumn II Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

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Critique

Floral Fantasies

and provocative references are disguised among its gentle petals. Velvety buds and dangerous spines intertwine in a maze of double entendres, stimulating our perception in an endless interpretative journey. Birkhaug’s petals create a vortex that captures the observer who is bewitched and fascinated by the proportionate recurrence of the concentric fragrant layers which compose each rose.

She can be hailed as the modern Bosschaert, master of the Dutch Golden Age, due to her immense talent in expressively painting gentle flowers and simultaneously conveying transcendent emotion. While Bosschaert predominantly arranged his blossoms symmetrically, developing a hyperrealistic and nearly scientific approach to painting petals, Birkhaug focuses on the symbolic power of nature by conveying its sentimental perspective and creating an eruption of compelling pigments. Thus, old fashioned bouquet compositions are transformed into vivid and nearly abstract atmospheres saturated with dancing forms and musical vibrations. Birkhaug’s works are deeply exuberant in their rhapsodic naturalness - a general sense of transcendence prevails in some smooth reproductions of flowers, while in some others a passionate corporeality and a unequivocal link between the artist’s inner self and the all-embracing primordial nature, can be sensed.

Christopher Rosewood International Confederation of Art Critics

Opposite: Rose II - Rosaret Arboretet Watercolor, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Blusch Damask (with detail) Oil on canvas,12 x 18 cm, 2010

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Rose in Autumn I Tempera on Canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

Rose in Autumn II Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

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“I hope the viewer to experience feeling good looking to the painting both the motives and the colors are important. Several people have when commenting on my paintings that they get a feeling of being in a Rosegarden or my paintings reminds them of the garden they had at home even the smell of the flowers or roses are evoked in them when looking at my paintings.

I also have a sort of universal or spiritual connection to the universe and I hope that all the good energies up in the universe will catch my paintings and give an energy sending to boost the viewers. My future paintings will be combinations of Roses in universe and Roses at the Planet Earth.�

Aase Birkhaug Interview by Art Arena New York Magazine

Rose Reine Marie Henriette Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2012

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Rose in Autumn I Tempera on Canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

Rose Ispahan Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2012

Rose in Autumn II Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

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Poetic Petals Timothy Warrington International Confederation of Art Critics

From a philosophical perspective, the divine balance of Birkhaug’s flowers combined with the irregularities of unique shades of colour, create overcoming compositions that evoke the German philosopher Georg Hegel’s concept of Thesis and Antithesis. In fact, Birkhaug’s innate predilection and inclination for the wonders concealed in a flower garden inflame unexpected juxtapositions, while the observer’s emotional reaction becomes the metaphorical Synthesis that harmonizes and goes beyond the previous phases, leading to the truth. Thus, when the viewer shapes a unique and personal interpretation of Birkhaug’s intricate depictions, a new shared reality is born, solving and reconciling their peculiar discernments of the natural universe, forming a new shared awareness.

Birkhaug deliberately abandons the mannerism of the scientific reproduction of flowers born in Flemish Baroque paintings and demonstrates references from Impressionist artists. In fact, each artwork is determined by a unique perspective of the light that delicately touches the rosebush, and even the smaller bud acquires the mystical aura of a celestial creature. Birkhaug conveys an effect of spontaneity and effortlessness that masks her carefully constructed compositions, using exquisite, condensed brushstrokes of pure unblended colors that barely reveal form. Rejecting the classical research of an ideal of beauty and an eternal essence of reality, Birkhaug follows Claude Monet’s footsteps, assuming that the authentic vision and perception of the subjects portrayed is preponderant compared to any learned conventional theory.

Opposite: Rose Ispahan Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2012

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Roses II Watercolour on canvas, 26 x 26 cm, 2015

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Roses II Watercolour on canvas, 26 x 26 cm, 2015

Poetic Petals Poetic Petals Thus, each wonderful flower garden appears contingent on the conditions under which the same rose can be investigated Thus, each all, wonderful flower garden appearstemperament contingent on and, above influenced by the emotional of the conditions under which the same rose can be investigated the painter herself. and, above all, influenced by the emotional temperament of the painter Season afterherself. season the blossoms give a different rainbow,

in a limitless colour spectrum that ranges from the most Season the blossoms give different rainbow, sensual after red toseason the delicate innocence of apale pink. Birkhaug in a limitless spectrum that ranges fromathe most becomes the colour indisputable “Mother of Roses”, creative sensual to the delicate innocence of pale beauty pink. Birkhaug soul thatred is entirely captured by the alluring of these becomes the indisputable “Mother of Roses”, a flowers and, at the same time, that is able to make the creative viewers soul that is entirely captured by the alluring beauty of these experience an equal astonishment, enchanting them with her flowers and, at the same time, that is able to make the viewers beautiful bouquets. Deeply analysing and understanding the experience equal astonishment, them with her mysterious an meanings secluded inenchanting these apparently simple beautiful bouquets. Deeply analysing and each understanding the botanic organisms, Birkhaug saturates composition mysterious meanings secluded intowards these apparently simple with her passion and dedication nature, becoming botanic organisms, Birkhaug saturates each composition “emissary” of empathy. with her passion and dedication towards nature, becoming “emissary” of empathy.the secret language of flowers, an Birkhaug welcomes

alphabet that she can entirely interpret and unfold, in the Birkhaug the secret language flowers, an attempt to welcomes make the viewers partakers of theofdelicate words alphabet she can She entirely and the unfold, in the whisperedthat by flowers. then interpret goes beyond boundaries attempt to imitation make the of viewers of her the delicate of an easy reality,partakers admitting limits inwords front whispered by flowers.

She then goes beyond the boundaries of the fierce power of Nature and leaving an air of mystery of an easy imitation of reality, admitting limits in front in her compositions.

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History. She Birkhaug’s is perfectlywork aware of emits the past glories an that can felthas even without a sympathy deep examination andintensity at the same timebeshe a profound towards of Art History.

She is perfectly aware of the past glories contemporary artistic developments. Hence, she becomes an and at the same time she has a profound sympathy towards inspiration for our generation, both for her artistic talent, and contemporary artistic developments. Hence, she becomes an gentle educational impulse. inspiration for our generation, both for her artistic talent, and gentle educational impulse.

Timothy Warrington International Confederation of Art Critics Timothy Warrington International Confederation of Art Critics

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My Roses II Charcoal on paper, 33 x 40 cm

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Rose de L Arborete I Watercolor and tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Red as a Rose (with detail) Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2013

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I think art is imperative and important because we, I and everybody else need positive stimulation to the sensory system - just like a healing effect I think. In Art Monaco Magazine there is an article about me and my art and they wrote: Parce-que la vie, est aussi un art!

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“My artistic process and my approach to creation starts when I am out in the nature and in the Botanical Gardens where I get my impressions for new paintings to create. [...] I try to reflect in my paintings the beauty ,the colours,the vibrations, the energy and the sensations in the perceptual meeting with the everyday nature flowers and roses. Roses are my favourites but there are several other flowers or blooming I love f ex pink and white peonies and pink and white magnolias.�

Aase Birkhaug Interview by Art Arena New York Magazine

Opposite: Abstract Roses Watercolour tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Tryllerose - Magic Rose book 2004 watercolor - 30x21 cm, 2004

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Nature’s Call Nature can be said to be the most perfect and the most pure form of art. As people, we are conditioned by nature, we thrive experiencing its beauty and we are given life through its love and its mysterious energy. Birkhaug is an artist who not only captures the essence of nature - she your captures its soul through delicate use of shape, form and colour.

This artist finds freedom through the depiction of petals and the subject-matter itself reflects on the spiritual and substantive depth of vision possessed by this artist who is able to transform a natural element into a force for good and change. Only a delicate heart and reflective human being with experience of the mind’s inner balance and elevated empathy could be capable of such a deep understanding of beauty.

In the late 1800s the pre-raphaelites utilised floral scenes to accentuate the aesthetic appeal of female portraits and figures whereas Birkhaug dedicates her art to the investigation and analyses of every aspect related to God’s most beautiful creation, the flower. She seems to be on a philosophical journey of discovery into what exactly makes a petal beautiful.

The link between art and psychology has taken many identities throughout history and is always intrinsically interlinked and dependent on one another.

Aase Birkhaug presents an innovative approach to art as a tool to influence the mind on the most subconscious of levels, rather than art as a product of the mind. There is no provocation, no strong choice of subject matter, no easy route to create a dramatic effect. Rather, this artist chooses the most subtle route to engage our inner thoughts and the deep areas of our instinctive subconscious.

Aase Birkhaug has the rare ability to stimulates our thoughts and inclines us to question the beauty that surrounds us. Why are the fallen leaves under a tree in Autumn so perfect? Why is it virtually impossible to improve the aesthetic balance of a random tree? In fact, there is no pursuable finite path to understanding or reaching concrete conclusions but Aase Birkhaug dedicates her explosive albeit refined creative energy to exploring and investigating Christopher Rosewood International Confederation of Art Critics

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I have been painting Roses since the early ’90s.

I’ve always been very interested in botanicals and botany, and have always admired flowers. Later on, in the 1990s, I started to window shop florists looking for roses and often found myself inside florists looking at the roses; smelling them.

During the summertime, I started taking photos of roses. Every day I would travel to the Arboretum at Milde in Bergen to take pictures of the roses.

They have about 500 – 600 different types of roses there.

I started painting a series of Roses in 1990 and 1991, through 1992.

I received the rose lists from the botanical staff in the Arboretum, and have also bought many rose books. To take inspiration from the literature and the photos in the books is of huge importance to me.

“Nurturing with Nature: An Interview with Aase Birkhaug”

By Erin Stobie - Outlet Magazine

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Blue Heaven Oil on canvas,18 x 24 cm, 2012

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Autumn Roses Tempera on canvas, 12 x 18cm, 2015

Autumn Roses Tempera on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2015

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Autumn Roses Tempera on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2015

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“I think I was born into art. I have always been interested in art, and I have always painted and drawn. I think of painting all the time, and I think about colours all of the time. I was born in the astrological sign Libra, and one of the Libra traits is of aesthetic sense, such as the appreciation of the beauty.

My grandfather Harald Ibsen, my grandfather’s cousin Anna Sofie Brunchenhorts Ibsen, my aunt Borghild Ibsen, and my father’s uncle, the famous Doctor Prof. Conrad Birkhaug, were all painters. The famous poet Henrik Ibsen is Anna Ibsen’s cousin (Anna Ibsen had a painting school in Bergen in early 1900), so it’s possible I inherited some genes from my relatives and ancestors. Also, from an early age, I attended art exhibitions and was very interested in colours, shapes, textures, and the impressions that paintings give.”

“Nurturing with Nature: An Interview with Aase Birkhaug”

By Erin Stobie - Outlet Magazine

Roses by Anna Ibsen Oil on canvas

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It is a three component situation back to when I was 15 years old and had to choose occupation in life and education in life. I had three options – studying at university & studying physiotherapy, attending an art school and or studying botanics at university. [...] Today and in the past years I have been thinking of how to combine these three factors so that I can integrate or implement all of them in my daily life.[...] Today I feel I have managed to merge them so that it gives me the meaning and completement and fulfillment in life that I have been searching or looking after.

Aase Birkhaug Interview by Art Arena New York Magazine

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Abstract Autumn Roses Watercolour, 23 x 30 cm, 2015

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Colour Me Chocolate Roses & Wildberry Oil on canvas

Colour me Chocolate Roses & Wildberry Oil on canvas

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Rose Amadeus III (with detail) Watercolour, 10 x 10 cm, 2004

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Rose & Muffin (with detail) Oil on canvas, 27 x 27 cm, 2012

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Shades of Roses Tempera on canvas, 20 x 40 cm, 2015

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“I want to communicate the beauty of nature, the softness, the tenderness, the colourful botanic with their everyday changes, during the day the month the year and during the four seasons in the year. My own impressions of these factors becomes a painting and far more new paintings.

We also knows that different colours has different effect upon humans and in the books written about colour therapy the different colours has different impacts.�

Aase Birkhaug Interview by Art Arena New York Magazine

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Rose Louis - Xavier Auguste Meillez Watercolor, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Artwork Analysis I chose this watercolour in particular because I feel it withholds, in it’s small but expressive being, the whole concept of Birkhaug’s essence and creativity.

It is a marvellous composition. The subject stands out in the centre of the paper surrounded by a varied foliage. Aase manages to use the grain of the paper to enhance the different nuances of the watercolour making it an extremely articulated piece of art.

The brushwork is careful to detail whilst maintaining the typical characteristics of a watercolour. The different tones of red create a dynamic and fresh effect, giving the rose a multi-sensory quality that amazingly evokes its intense fragrance while the remainder of the composition is filled with a polychromatic array of leaves. The green tones are so well balanced and heterogeneous, creating depth, movement, and a soupçon of mystery and allure. Leaves rustled by the wind, that capture the light of the sun and reflect the different shades of brilliance and umbrage, giving us the extraordinary tactile and vivid sensation of actually being immersed in nature.

Aase Birkhaug’s taste for painting is expressed in all its glory. She is undoubtedly a marvellous painter that manages to create her compositions in a unique manner.

The more one looks at this art work, the more it draws you into its unfathomable depths. The details of the leaves and the blossoms capture our attention after having metabolised the first overwhelming impact of the composition, in its entirety, through our eyes and our senses. Innuendos of faded reds that infer a wider dimension around the main flower, a bush of roses that even our fantasy willingly expands, discovering a magical dimension full of airy freshness and light hearted freedom.

An ancient pleasure for familiar images pervades our spirit when enjoying this beautiful painting. Our senses are rejuvenated and renewed with an energy that only the capable hands of this artist manages to bestow upon us. A true nature lover with a rare and exquisite talent for painting.

Karen Lappon International Confederation of Art Critics

Opposite: Rose Louis - Xavier Auguste Meillez Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Autumn Rose II (with detail) Tempera on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2015

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Rose Felicite Parmentier (with detail above and opposite)

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“Our Curatorial Review Committee was particularly impressed by your brilliantly colourful floral oeuvre with its transluminescent style. ‘Autumn Roses’ resonates with a profound love of the Floral realm and lyrical visual intensity and is a triumph of individual expression. In addition, we enjoyed how your capture the ethereal beauty, romance and timelessness of our floral world in ‘Rose Felicite’.

We commend you on how you honour the flora kingdom in ‘Rose de Paradise’ which luminously reflects your ethereal and joyful colour palette and passionately reveals the eternal quality of nature. We also delighted in your luminescent hues and compelling tonal combinations of your glorious ‘Princess Roses’ with its syncopated interplay of light and delicacy of lyrical line, as your glorify the joy of the Natural realm.

Our Curatorial Review Committee salutes you on your oeuvre which emblematises the divine splendour of the floral realm as you capture the enchanting essence of the invisible spirit of nature and externalize its joie de vivre [...]”

Amsterdam Whitney Gallery Curatorial Review Committee

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Charles de Mills Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2010

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Rose Louis Zavier & Auguste Miellez Watercolour and tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Above: Rose de Paradise II Watercolour and tempera on canvas, 2016

Opposite: In the garden of Eden III (with detail) Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2004

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Wings of Freedom Oil on canvas - 48 x 30 inches

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“The first thing I do when I am about to start a new work is thinking about the process.

I select a motif or motive that gives me the inspiration to prepare to a make a new painting; that can be a trip in nature, in the rose garden, in a rose book, or looking at the fourteen thousand photos I have taken of different roses over the years.

I then select paper or canvas, choose colours, and select the size. Sometimes I use the motive or motif I have selected all the time during the painting process, and other times I do not use it more than just to get started. Then I paint until I intuitively know I have finished.

The painting process may take some time–from days to weeks to months–and differs from painting to painting. Often, I have to take a break and the look at it again to see what is missing. That can be the colours, the shapes, the softness, or the whole composition of the painting.

I know it’s ready when I feel the painting has a sort of balance–harmony in colours–and the spread of the painting on the paper or the canvas is in harmony.”

“Nurturing with Nature: An Interview with Aase Birkhaug”

By Erin Stobie Outlet Magazine

Opposite: Yellow Roses Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2012

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The Astronomers, 1997 Oil on canvas - 130x100 cm

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Above: Autumn Roses II Tempera on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2015

Opposite: In my Rosegarden Watercolour and tempera, 24 x 30 cm, 1992

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“Nature Flowers Roses... ...And the beauty and impact these factors does give when watching the sight, the smell and the colours they reflect.�

Aase Birkhaug Interview by Art Arena New York Magazine

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Above: Autumn Roses II Tempera on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2015 Rose De L Arborete II Watercolor, 10X15cm, 2015

Opposite: In my Rosegarden Watercolour and tempera, 24 x 30 cm, 1992

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Queen of Roses

The painting of aase birkhaug transports the observer in a new heaven. Color is declined in its most delicate shape. The cromia is soft and at the same time it transmits at the bystender a feeling of relaxation.

I want to define aase as the true queen of roses. She paints this flower through the purity of colors and the elegance of the form. With her painting, she takes us to eden, in that garden where all of us can pick the most beautiful flowers.

Soffused visual colors legitimately invade the canvas. Aase Birkhaug takes us into a new dimension of the dream. A dream that has its creative essence in the artist’s magical brush strokes. The artist is one of the true interpreters of romantic pictorial hyperrealism. Her painting doesn’t just follow the academic rules, but takes inspiration from visual poetry, leaving the spectator in charge of emotion. Her painting is the representation of the real. Each brush stroke is actually an open window on the world. She decides to capture the most beautiful shades; real heaven on earth. The observer, who sees her works, abandons to them and let them bring him to a world completely dominated by beauty and peace.

Aase is a painter free from external conditioning. Free from paradoxes of sign, paradoxes often used by artists who cannot express real emotions. She is a painter whose philosophy is based on sweetness and eternal beauty that will save us from distruction.

Light explosions characterize a visual path that has its interpretation in the concept of research. Birkhaug is an artist able to create her own alphabet. An alphabet whose language lies in the artist’s gesture, that introducing her emotions of light. Recreating light is not easy, and aase always portraits it with high carefullness. The painter relies on color to express her moods, emotions picked in remote corners of earth, to gather thoughts of a contemporary world that is changing fast. The light rips the darkness and lightens the narrated. A narrate that explores the human mind and testifies its most intimate thoughts. Chromatic thoughts with a strong emotional impact. A painting that starts from the heart of the artist and gets to the soul of who’s standing in front of her beautiful visual representations.

Dr. Salvatore Russo

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Roses Blossoms of Brilliance

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Wild Rose Watercolour and tempera, 15 x 10 cm, 2017

AASE BIRKHAUG “SPECTRAL CELEBRATIONS”

JUNE 17- AUGUST 22, 2017

Norwegian artist Aase Birkhaug is inspired by Frida Kahlo who proclaimed: “I paint flowers so that they will not die.” Eternalizing and immortalizing the permanence of the floral kingdom, Ms. Birkhaug pays homage to the aesthetic beauty of roses. An emissary of nature, Ms. Birkhaug visually combines her physiotherapy training with her passion for flowers. Combining European and Asian influences into a rich and highly detailed art form, Ms. Birkhaug steps away from the trappings of our technological culture and recalls a time of sensorial depth and dedication to beauty in all of its forms.

Inspired by the psychological effects colors and imagery have on the mind, Ms. Birkhaug skillfully and deliberately combines her color palette and rose compositions to yield a calming effect for her viewers. “I discovered several years ago that roses have a positive effect on me, almost like healing, and the combination of the small and the sight feels like a mediation” she explains of her inspiration. Offering a voluptuous symphony of line and color, Ms. Birkhaug captures the essence of a classical still-life painting and transforms it into a re-imagined and extraordinarily compelling image. Striking in lushness of color, texture, line, and form, the result are rose paintings that are complex and weighty, while simultaneously sensuous. With a balanced sense of composition and keen sensitivity to light, Ms. Birkhaug creates images that capture the spirit of the Dutch masters, but then moves that spirit forward into the contemporary realm through a bold, expressive use of color and a modern take on texture and movement. Rendering forms through thick, energetic brush strokes to detailed lines and dynamic perspectives, Ms. Birkhaug’s paintings reveal a unique and powerful partnership of technique.

Emphatically utilizing the richness and the intensity of color, Ms. Birkhaug is adept at depicting the subtleties of of flowers, giving life to an arrangement of vividly hued flowers, as she endows each image with a depth and physical presence that thoroughly engage the viewer. Like O’Keeffe, much of her art is focused on the eternal mysteries hidden within the flower. Masterfully capturing the convergence of gesture, lines, shadows, and texture to create truly emotive works, her paintings are a reflection of the past as it is a portent of the future.

Stunning in its simplicity as it is compelling in its level of detail, Aase Birkhaug illustrates the beauty of her floral subjects in the minutia of visual details and the broad, overall atmosphere of each composition. Proficient in art media such as aquarelle, tempera, gouache, oil, acrylics, and pastels, Ms. Birkhaug’s quest for learning places her at the forefront of artistic innovation. Through her art, Ms. Birkhaug’s visual poetry is a message of serenity to the world with images that are refreshingly tranquil, reminding the viewer of the serene moments and vistas that perhaps still do exist if we but know where to look. Celebrated in both private and public collections in Europe and the U.S., Amsterdam Whitney Gallery is proud to shine the spotlight on this contemporary master!

Press Release Ruthie Tucker Amsterdam Whitney Gallery New York

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Wild Rose Watercolour and tempera, 15 x 10 cm, 2017

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Rose Madame Plantier Watercolor, tempera and gouache

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Wild Rose Watercolour and tempera, 15 x 10 cm, 2017

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AASE BIRKHAUG “ROMANCING the ROSE”

FEBRUARY 2-MARCH 14, 2018

Norwegian artist Aase Birkhaug is inspired by Frida Kahlo who proclaimed: “I paint flowers so that they will not die.” Eternalizing and immortalizing the permanence of the floral kingdom, Ms. Birkhaug pays homage to the aesthetic beauty of roses. An emissary of nature, Ms. Birkhaug visually combines her physiotherapy training with her passion for flowers. Combining European and Asian influences into a rich and highly detailed art form, Ms. Birkhaug steps away from the trappings of our technological culture and recalls a time of sensorial depth and dedication to beauty in all of its forms.

Inspired by the psychological effects colors and imagery have on the mind, Ms. Birkhaug skillfully and deliberately combines her color palette and rose compositions to yield a calming effect for her viewers. “I discovered several years ago that roses have a positive effect on me, almost like healing, and the combination of the small and the sight feels like a mediation” she explains of her inspiration. Offering a voluptuous symphony of line and color, Ms. Birkhaug captures the essence of a classical still-life painting and transforms it into a re-imagined and extraordinarily compelling image. Striking in lushness of color, texture, line, and form, the result are rose paintings that are complex and weighty, while simultaneously sensuous. With a balanced sense of composition and keen sensitivity to light, Ms. Birkhaug creates images that capture the spirit of the Dutch masters, but then moves that spirit forward into the contemporary realm through a bold, expressive use of color and a modern take on texture and movement. Rendering forms through thick, energetic brush strokes to detailed lines and dynamic perspectives, Ms. Birkhaug’s paintings reveal a unique and powerful partnership of technique.

Emphatically utilizing the richness and the intensity of color, Ms. Birkhaug is adept at depicting the subtleties of of flowers, giving life to an arrangement of vividly hued flowers, as she endows each image with a depth and physical presence that thoroughly engage the viewer. Like O’Keeffe, much of her art is focused on the eternal mysteries hidden within the flower. Masterfully capturing the convergence of gesture, lines, shadows, and texture to create truly emotive works, her paintings are a reflection of the past as it is a portent of the future.

Stunning in its simplicity as it is compelling in its level of detail, Aase Birkhaug illustrates the beauty of her floral subjects in the minutia of visual details and the broad, overall atmosphere of each composition. Proficient in art media such as aquarelle, tempera, gouache, oil, acrylics, and pastels, Ms. Birkhaug’s quest for learning places her at the forefront of artistic innovation. Through her art, Ms. Birkhaug’s visual poetry is a message of serenity to the world with images that are refreshingly tranquil, reminding the viewer of the serene moments and vistas that perhaps still do exist if we but know where to look. Celebrated in both private and public collections in Europe and the U.S., Amsterdam Whitney Gallery is proud to shine the spotlight on this contemporary master!

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Art Critique

It is not easy to talk about art with the aim o describe it. You can partially describe its meaning, or you can talk about its role in the global culture during centuries., but every word will never be enough thorough for it, but maybe art is something that in the end doesn’t need words, but just visual frames of creativity.

Art is something that belongs to everyone, it doesn’t matter if you are an expert or just an amateur, because art moves feelings and emotions, so concernes with everybody, but just a real artist can give this image of art offering h her creations to a public In an anxious wait to discover new masterpieces. Through evocative iconography, chromatic organization, personal sensation and of course technical skills, our artists give to the world a very precious gift. Art is a very wide field that includes several styles and techniques always enriched by the personality of the artist, and so it’s a duty for all of us to thank these incredible artists for the free love and good vibrations they spread through their works., its our duty to underline their constant dedication in turning the world into a better and more poetical place. Artists who show their sensitivity in every single brush stroke, who combine colors in orderto move a precise sensation in the observer, who put their heart and mind in their works. Art can be sculpture, can be photography , painting or something else, but this will always be something not so important, because even if you change the shape of something, what counts is the essence.

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Arte Milano Premio internationale july 2017 The selection of your works for this prestigious art project, guarantees the value of stylistic research in the contemporary art scene.

Your presence confirms the creativity as one of the most important ways to spread knowledge.

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Paradise Roses Tempera on Canvas, 20 x 40 cm, 2018

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Aase Birkhaug 2016-2017 Artist Aase Birkhaug fascinates with compositions of magnificent flowers. Delicate colors and their implementation reflect the beauty of nature. Abstract background creates positive feelings when looking at the artworks. Through contrasts and light effects a romantic mood appears in the works of art.

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Rose de L Arborete I Watercolor & Tempera 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Art Critic from Art Professor Elmadani Belmadani in Taza Marokko Aase Birkhaug is one of the best international artists, her favorite style is Roses, semi abstract, she has participated in many great events around the world ..and received many international art prizes, as medium she uses tempera, oil, acrylics, gouache, watercolor and charcoal and pastel.

Her palette is always rose colors.

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M.A.D. GALLERY MILANO AASE BIRKHAUG “Princesse of Roses�

Ode to the Rose, dedicated to my love and to all the Princesses

The color of love is that open your lips O Rose, your perfume has drugged me, your beauty has bewitched me.

Among all, you are the most beautiful, even more a star.

Wrap me and teach me the language of flowers.

Let s talk all night about you loves, O Rose with soft petals.

You, my Princesse of the Roses and I, your Prince Caress my bar skin with your smooth creamy mantle Make me your winged horse.

Quench me with your dew, inebriate me and when I wake up, prove to me that it was not just a dream.

Hypnotic Rose, soft and lush.

Romantic and passionate, elegant and real.

You, Princesse of all roses, that of you are eternally envious and jealous.

You are the life, you are the party and the departure.

Rose without thorns, that even if you had, many and prickles, I would do of this my body a bundle of wounds Because you are beautiful and to see you, even for a while, It would give a meaning to everything, even to my pain.

CARLO GRECO ART DIRECTOR M.A.D. GALLERY MILANO ITALY

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Inside the Artist’s Mind

I have been asked numerous times during recent years from people looking at my paintings, how do you do it? How do you paint? Do you teach? Do you hold seminars and can you teach me so that I can be a better painter?

A message received by the artist in 2018: Aase as you know I have been following your work, I absolutely LOVE it.

I have a question do you teach or hold seminars? Do you have a book or notes regarding how you paint, your approach, your techniques, materials etc?

I will continue to observe and love your work hopefully through that I will get to where I want to be.

Your work is a true work of art from God. I answered him that I do not teach at the moment and do not have seminars either but maybe I will in the future.

As can be seen from my paintings in the book “The Rosegarden“ one will notice that I have many paintings and in different techniques, materials and forms of expression.

Where I feel most “at home“ is when I paint semi abstract paintings where some of the details in the painting are diffused and other details in the painting are more defined.

This technique allows me to paint with freedom and with good colors that give a feeling of joy.

The meaning of the colors and the impact that the colors give in a painting are essential for how the painting will appear and is perceived by the admirer.

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Opposite: Rose in Universe Tempera and gold 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Exhibitions • Selected My own Solo AtelierExhibitions og Gallery Bergen 2004-2017 – Galleri 39 / Grønnestølsvei 23c – 39 • Freiaparken Roses Exhibition 2001 – Solo exhibition with the Rose Association My own og Gallery Bergen 2004-2017 Galleri 39 / Grønnestølsvei 23c-39 • • Hole SpeilAtelier og Ramme Bergen 1990-2016 – in- Gallery exhibition with others • Hole Speil og Ramme Bergen 2004 - 2016 - Gallery • Primstaven – Nesttun – Bergen – Norway – in Gallery Exhibition with other artists 2004-2006 • Prydkunst Hjertholm Bergen Sentrum + Lagunen 2004 - 2006 - Art cards Roses • • Galleri 151 Alvøen 2004-2005 – Summer Exhibition – Out in our Garden – with Primstaven - Nesttun - Bergen -Exhibition Norway - commission sale 2004 - 2006 artist • another Galleri 151 Alvøen 2004 - 2005 - Summer Exhibition - Out in our Garden • • Cafe Hordaland-–Summer Spring –Summer - Roses summer 2005- Solo CafeMoldegaard Moldegaard Os ii Hordaland Exhibition Exhibition - Roses, 2005 • exhibition Cafe Moldegaard Os i Hordaland Easter Exhibition - Roses The Moldegaard Lady and Womens Dinner - Fjøsanger Samlingene Roses Rekstensamlingene • • Cafe Os i Hordaland Easter Exhibition– - Solo exhibition Art Collections at Reksten • The Lady and Womens Dinner - Fjøsanger Samlingene Rekstensamlingene - Art Collections at • Anemone Flower & Gift Shop, 2004 Reksten – Exhibition of Paintings – Solo exhibition • Sea and Marine Research Faculty in Bergen, 2004 • • Anemone & Gift Shop – Exhibition Solo-2004 Det HviteFlower Hus / The White House - Interior Shop Paradis Bergen, 2004 • • Sea Marine Research Faculty ini Os, Bergen NMand i Dressage Riding Moldegaard 2002– Solo Exhibition Juli – September 2004 • • Det Hvite Berstadhusets Hus / The White House Flexibox Aula, 2002 – Interior Shop- Paradis Bergen – Summer 2004 – June – July • Solo Moldegaard Dressur grand Prix 2001 Exhibition – vernissage 230stevne, invited guests – flutists and grand opening with 84 art works • Collective Exhibition - Barcelona – Gallery Sala Barna January 2003 • Collective Exhibition summer june 2002 Grebenhain - Germany

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Exhibitions • Selected Solo Exhibition - NM i Dressage Riding Moldegaard i Os 9-18 August 2002 Group Exhibitions • Solo Exhibition Flexibox Berstadhusets Aula february – Mars 2002 Exhibition Galleria Il-Collezionista, Rome, 2018 • • Garden for at Everybody Sjølystsenteret Norsk roseforening april 2001 – Solo exhibition • Valentine Collectors Choice Exhibition, Amsterdam Whitney • Solo Exhibition Moldegaard Dressur grand Prix stevne Juli Gallery, 2001 New York, 2017 • Cannes Biennial, 2017 • Collective Exhibition - Oslo – Humanitare exhibition for children in Brazil humanitary Exhibition • “Creativity & Sustainability” Florence Biennale 2017 til gatebarn i Brazil • //inntekter Architechural Digest Design Show. Presented by Artifact Art up Close NY 2017 • • Collective Exhibition Solstrand Fjord HotelArtifact Os i Hordaland Spectrum Miami, represented by Art up Close NY 2017 1991 • • Collective Exhibition - Gamle by Bergen 1992 Art Expo New York. Presented Artifact Art up Close NY 2017 Print Exhibit at Ben Navaee Gallery Toronto • • Collective Exhibition - Kløverhuset BergenCanada 1990 2017 • Art Museum, Torino, Italy 2017 • Hardanger Antikk Grova april 2001 – Solo exhibition 1st International Fine ArtBergen Biennal1990-1993 Basel, Switzerland 2017 artists • • Birthe Bo Interiør shop – with other • Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2017 • Paintings - Dammplass-stua Oslo 1990-1992 exhibition with others • Tokyo International Art Fair, 2017 • • Paintings - Vildanden GaveBiennial, og Interiør Grimstad 2004 – 2010 – with others Taza International Friouato 2017 • • Paintings - MK Interiør Sale de Bramante, Piazza forretning del Popolo,Nesttun Romam Bergen 2017 2004-2005 – Solo exhibition • • Paintings og Gave Geilo – 1991-1994 – with other artists Exhibition- IAnnekset Segnalati Interiør Berlin, 2017 European Art Museum, 2017Taza Marocco 2nd edition 03/26-30/2016 • • Spring International Salon • Gallery Immagini Spazio Arte, 2017 2 nd edition 08/06-11/2016 • Taza Marocco International Biennal Monaco patronage of HSH Prince AlbertRosso, II of Monaco • • Una rosa Yacht e UnaShow, Rosahigh , Musei di strada Nouva , Palazzo Genova2017 Italy 28.07.2016-04.09.2016 • MILAN INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD with Vittorio Sgarbi, 2017 – 6 artists Roseladies • Art Festival in Pontifical Palace La Pigna Gallery, Marescotti Palace, Rome, 2017 • • Caroussell Louvre World Art Du Dubai, 2017Art Fair Shopping Exhibition in 22-23 2016 represented by PAKS Gallery • International Art Fair Malaga, 2017 • • Art FairAlliance Montreaux 9-13 with November 2016

by PAKS GALLERY Dubai Francaise Museums of represented America – Small is Beautiful, 2017 International VIP ART ZONE MeART International Biennale in Palermo Italy • • Kiwani Clubs Sotra Autumn Exhibition 10-19 November 20162017 – group of 28 artists • Kiwani Clubs Sotra Autumn Exhibition 2017 • Spectrum Miami 6-10.12.2016 represented by Art up Close Artifact New York Modern Art Austria Biennale, Vienna 2017 • • Monte Carlo, Monaco 21-24 september 2017 – represented by gallery Artifact Art up Close NY • Taza International Print Fair Taza Marokko, 2017 • Architechural Digest Design Show 2017 - http://addesignshow.com/in New York City • Show in Monte Carlo, Monacop. Presented by gallery Artifact Art up Close NY 2017 March 16-19, 2017Art, represented by PAKS Gallery International. 2016 • on Carrousel Du Louvre • • Represented by gallery Artifact by ArtPAKS up Close NY International 2016 Art Fair Montreaux represented GALLERY • • VIP Biennale in Palermo Italy “UnaART RosaZONE e Una MeART Rosa - It’sInternational all about Roses in Art”, Mediterranean Musei di Strada Art Nuova Palazzo Rosso - Genoa, Italy,exhibition 2016 09.03.-12.03.2017 – group but only 50 artists selected for VIP ZONE • Spring International Salon Taza Marocco, 2016 2017 Vienna 11.03-19.03.2017 Vienna group exhibi• 2st International Modern Art Austria Biennale • tion Taza Marocco International Biennal, 2016 • Barcelona - Gallery Sala Barna, 2003 • Taza International Print Fair Taza Marokko 2017, 26.03- 30.03.2017 Group exhibition • Grebenhain - Germany, 2002 • • Biennale D Freiaparken Arte Peschiera del Garda Italy 31.03-03.04.2017 Exhibition Norwegian Rose Association Oslo, 2001Group exhibition • • Art Expofor New York 2017 21.04.-24.04.2017 group exhibibition Garden Everybody - Sjølystsenteret Norsk –roseforening, 2001 represented by Gallery Artifact Art Close NY • up Biennale de Arte Barcelona invitation 2017 Oslo – Humanitarian children in Brazil • • Print/Publish Exhibit Show 2017 for at Ben Navaee Gallery Toronto Canada – Group exhibition • Solstrand Fjord Hotel Os i Hordaland, 1991 • International Modern Art Cannes Biennale Cannes France 17.05-19.05.2017 Group exhibition repre• sented Gamleby Bergen, PAKS1992 Gallery • Kløverhuset Bergen, 1990 • 1st International Fine Art Biennal Basel, Basel in Switzerland 16-18 Juni 2017 • Hardanger Antikk Grova, 2001 • • XI Florence Biennale Florence Italy 06.10- 15.10.2017 Birthe Bo Interiør shop2017 Bergen, 1990-1993 • Tokyo International Art Fair 26-27 May 2017 67107

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Art Fair Malaga 2017 – International Contemporary Art Fair 30.06.2017 – 02.07.2017 a new work is thinking about the process.

Dubai Alliance Francaise with Museums of America – Small is Beautiful. 06.04.17-16.04.2017 select a motif motive that gives me WorldIArt Dubai 12-16 april 2017or – 6 paintings the inspiration toMay prepare to aby make Biennale de Arte Barcelona 5-7 2017 - Invited FransecoaS new Russo & Salvatore Russo internathat can be a trip in nature, in the tional painting; art curators and art critics Amsterdam Gallery New York 17-AUGUST 22, 2017 Exhibition roseWhitney garden, in aChelsea rose book, orJUNE looking at the The Gala Champagnethousand Reception & “MID-SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” fourteen photos I have taken of Soiree: SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2017over 3:00 -5:00 different roses thepm years.

Art Museum Torino 13-22 july 2017 MIIT Museum Corso Cairoli 4 10123 Torino Italy Taza International Friouato Biennial 2 nd edition from 01.- 05 Juli 2017 curated by Ms Maco Vargas I then select paper or canvas, choose colours, and Elmadani Belmadani and select the size. Sometimes I use the motive Exhibition in Rome Italy at Sale de Bramante – Piazza del Popolo Roma 26-29 May 2017 or motif I have selected the during International Friouato Biennale 2017 2 nd all edition 01- time 05 Juli 2017 Taza Marokko the painting process, and other times I do not Exhibition I Segnalati Berlin 16 – 22 September – 23 – 28 September 2017 in art gallery “In Arte use Berlin it more than started.

Then I Werkkunst Germany. (artjust criticsto andget art curatore Salvatore Russo) Participation the event & exhibition at know MILANIINTERNATIONAL painttountil I intuitively have finished.ART AWARD – PREMIO INTERNATIONALE ARTE MILANO 25 TH JULY 2017 – critic by Vittorio Sgarbi – the awards held in Milan, Theater Dal Verme 25 Julymay 2017 take some time–from The painting process European Art Museum – represented with my painting – ROSE DE CHAGALL days to weeks to months–and differs from http://europeanartmuseum.eu/ Leif Nielsen Arresodalvei 4 3300 Frederiksvaerk painting to painting. Often, I have to take a Exhibition Contemporary Art – at Gallery Immagini Spazio Arte 3 – 16 Septemeber 2017 break and the look at it again to see what is www.arteimmagini.it missing.

ThatPalace can La bePigna theGallery colours, the shapes, Art Festival in Pontifical – Maffei Marescotti Palace Rome Italy 20th – 30th the softness, orRoberto the whole of September 2017 invited by Giuliani &composition Gabriele Giuilani of Being the represented in Exhibition - Monaco Yacht Show (MYS) — a super exclusive painting. event for the ultra luxury market. The show will take place on September 27-30, 2017 in Monte Carlo under the highwhen patronage of Histhe Serene Highness Prince I know it’s ready I feel painting has Albert II of Monaco http://www.monacoyachtshow.com a sort of balance–harmony in colours–and The Valentine Collectors Choice Exhibition – from the 2nd of February – to the 14th of March 2018 the spread of the painting on the paper or at Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea New York the canvas is inIl harmony.

Solo Exhibition at Galleria Collezionista”15 working days in July 2018 5th – 20th July International Biennial of Mantova selected among 100 international artists by The Scientific Committee compose by Salvatore Russo, Fransesco Saverio Russo, Sandro Serradifalco and Paolo Levi – “Nurturing with Nature: 4th to the 10th of November 2017 An Interview with Aase Birkhaug” Kiwani Clubs Autumn Exhibition 08.11.2017 – 12.11.2017By Erin Stobie Art Biennale Milano Mad Gallery Milano 2017 – 2018 Outlet Magazine Selected to exhibit at Arts Carneval in Venice 2 – 3 February 2018 at Hotel Bauer S Marco Invited by Spoleto Arte www.spoletoarte.com Womens Essence Show Madrid 2018 – 13-15 april 2018 – Womens Art Award 2018 International Art Prize Rafaello – Exhibition Bologna Italy 4th of May 2018 Yellow Roses Prime Time October Exhibition Amsterdam Whitney Gallery NewOpposite: York 2018 Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2012

Exhibitions Selections Selected by the International Selections Committees • Art Monaco Biennale 2017 & 2018, Monaco • Florence Biennale 2017 & 2018 Florence Italy • Carneval Di Venezia 2019, Venezia Italy

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Alexander Antanenka APP Nancy Balmert VÉRONICA BARCELLONA Ric Conn Cora Cronemeyer Robert Davidian Davia Deplanche Michael Gleizer Adrienne Kyros Anna Alexis Michel Tiki Mulvihill John Peters Ai-Wen Wu Kratz Wendy Yeo Toyo Contin Mark James Ford Anna Franklin Ann Gores DIANE HOLLAND Nick Kacic-Miosic Nargis Khalid Judith Mont Hasna Sal Xingya Yang

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Awards & Achievements “The first thing I do when I am about to start Collections a new work is thinking about the process.

I select a motif or motive that gives me Art People Gallery since 2016 • Hole speil og Ramme Bergen, 1990-2016 the to prepare to a make a new Saatchi Art sinceinspiration 2016 • Dammplass-stua Oslo, 1990-1992 painting; in the Bergen, 2004-2005 Fine Art America sincethat 20216 can be a trip in• nature, Galleri Primstaven rose2016 garden, in a rose book, or• looking the Artslant since Vildandenat Gave og Interiør Grimstad, 2004Etsy sincefourteen 2016 thousand photos I have taken of 2010 Artavita since 2016 • MK Interiør forretning Nesttun Bergen, 2004different roses over the years.

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ArtUPClose since 2016 2005 Ben Navajee Gallery Torronto • Annekset Interiør og Gave Geilo, 1991-1994 I then select paper or canvas, choose colours, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery New York and select the size. Sometimes I use the motive European Art Museum Denmark or motif I have selected all the time during Contemporary Art Curators Directory theMilano painting process, and other times I do not MAD Gallery it more than Gallery Il use Collezionista Rome Italy just to get started. Then I Spoleto Dell Arte until Italy paint I intuitively know I have finished.

Gallery Cremona Italy

The painting process may take some time–from days to weeks to months–and differs from painting to painting. Often, I have to take a break and the look at it again to see what is missing. That can be the colours, the shapes, the softness, or the whole composition of the painting.

I know it’s ready when I feel the painting has a sort of balance–harmony in colours–and the spread of the painting on the paper or the canvas is in harmony.”

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Taza Bienniale 2nd Edition 2016 - number 2 received prize -2nd winner, winner of the Taza Bieniale 2 nd Edition 2016 06.08.2016-11.08.2016 Certificate of Excellence – The 20th Online Artavita Contest for Artwork entered at The 20th Online Artavita Contest 14.09.2016 The International Prize Galileo Galilei. January 22th, 2017, inside the Congress Palace, Galileo Galilei room, in Pisa. Salvatore Russo Rome Italy Artavita Online Art Contest the 21 th Certificate of Exellence issued dec 9, 2016 – 1038 entries – 50 selected I am very proud to award you with the International Prize Cristoforo Colombo - Art Explorer 18.02.2017 Genova Italy

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Awards & Achievements • The International Prize Dante Alighieri by Art Curator Salvatore Russo. April 1st 2017. Peschiera del Garda.Italy • International award Francisco Goya – 6 th of may 2017. Barcelona Spain. Salvatore Russo & Fransesco Saverio Russo • Honorable Award for my paintings represented in Taza Print Art Fair 26-30 March 2017 – Taza Marokko • 2nd winner at the Taza Print Art Fair in Taza Marocco 26-30 March 2017 –Honorable Award • Awarded for The International Award Caravaggio Experience, Rome Italy 26th May 2017 • Milano International ART Award – premio international Arte Milano 25th July 2017 curated and critic by Vittorio Sgarbi • Certificate of Excellence Artavita Online Art Contest # 22 by Despina Tunberg Curator of Artavita.

• Affiliate Artists Certificate – Circle Foundation for the arts Affiliate Artists Program. Certificate testament to the quality of the artists work and validates juried entry and membership into the Circle Foundation for the arts Affiliate Artists Program 2017 • HONORED Award 1 st Prize – HONORED Award og winner of Biennale– Taza International Friouato Biennale TazaMarokko 1-5 July • Certificate of Excellence – delivered sept 2017 from Circle Foundation for the Arts • The International Art Prize Andrea Mantegna 04.11.2017 by art curatores and Art Critics Fransesco Saverio Russo and Salvatore Russo Rome Italy • 2nd international art prize Lenardo da Vincci – Florence Borghese Palace 20 January 2018 by Salvatore Russo Rome Italy • Honorable Mention Award 6.12.17 from Circle foundation Director Myrina Tunberg Gorgiou • The international art Prize of Nations Tribute to Tiziano awarded by Salvatore Russo Rome Italy • Circle-Arts Foundation.You have been selected for an Honorable Mention Award for the high aesthetic, technical and creative standard of your work • Womens Essence Show Madrid 2018 – 13-15 April 2018 – Womens Art Award 2018 • Spoleto Arte. PREMIO CANALETTO – INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE PREMIO CANALETTO.

BY Spoleto Arte s committee Vittorio Sgarbi, Alberto D Atanasio, Salvo Nuges, Veronica ferretti and Roberta Camerino • The International Prize Raffaello the 4th of May 2018 , Gnudi Palace Bologna Italy Wild Rose Salvatore Russo & Fransesco Saverio Russo Watercolour and tempera, 15 x 10 cm, 2017

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Contemporary Art curators Directory 2017 World of Art Masters Taza Spring edition and Taza Biennale 2016 – 2017 About Art Magazine 2016 Carousell Du Louvre Cataloque – Modern Art Masters in Complex du Louvre Carousel de Louvre booklet Paks Gallery October 2016 • Art and Art Market, Masters of 21th Century 2016 112 72

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Art in World 2016 European Art Museum Denmark Biennale international d Arte del Mediterraneo ME ART 50 artists selected by Salvatore Russo 2017 Biennale d Arte Pechiera del Garda book Art international contemporary magazine directed by Salvatore Russo July-August 2017 EA Editore International award Caravaggio Experience book E A Editore Art International Contemporary Magazine May-June 2017 EA Editore Fransico Goya international Award EA Editore 2017 book International 1 st International Modern Art Cannes Biennale book Paks Gallery 17-19 May 2017 1 st international Fine Art Biennal Basel 16-18 Juni 2017 Arte Milano publication booklet EA Editore 2017 In Arte Werkkunst book Segnalati Berlin 2017 EA Editore 2nd Biennale de Arte Barcelona bookEA Editore May 2017 Art international contemporary magazine march – April 2017 EA Editore Dante Alighieri book EA Editore 2017 Art international contemporary magazine January – February 2018 EA Editore 2 nd international Leonardo da Vinci The universal Artist EA Editore January 2018 book Museo Fransesco Gonzaga Mantova international Bienniale of Contemporary Art November 2017 – book EA Editore Mantova internatBiennial of Contemporary Art book EA Editore Art international Contemporary Magazine November-December 2017 EA Editore Art international contemporary magazine September – October 2017 EA Editore Segnalati Berlin 2017 EA Editore The Best Modern and Contemporary Artists 2017 EA Editore The first Berliner Art Book 2018 WE Contemporary the faces of contemporary Art Musa international Art space 2017 book Art International Contemporary Magazine January – February 2017 International award Galileo Galilei the scientist who wanted to be an artist book EA Editore World masters of Contemporary Art Taza Biennale since 2014 book November 2015 ‘Art Explorer Cristofero Colombo book EA Editore Art and Art market. Masters of the 21st century. MAMAG MODERN ART MUSEUM AUSTRIA 2017 BOOK 2nd international modern art Austria Biennial 11-19 March 2017 – booklet Modern art masters contemporary Art Fair Montreux 12 th MAG Montreux Art Gallery Paks Gallery booklet 2016 Florence Biennale international Bienniale of Contemporary Art XI th edition Earth Creativity & Sustainability 2017 Firence Fortezza da Basso Book Middle East Art Collector Association 2018-2019 book Save the Planet 2018 international book MUSA – WOMENS ART AWARD book 2018 Contemporary art Curator Artists directory 2017 – 2018 Palazzo Rosso Genova pressrelease, newspapers and Museum statements 2017 113

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Awards & Achievements • Artistic Visions Aase Birkhaug New York 2017 Amsterdam Whitney Gallery Book publication (my own) The ISBN for ARTISTIC VISIONS OF AASE BIRKHAUG is: 9781364161033 • Representation in book Startl 2019 after selected from the art committee in Atlante dell Arte DeAgnostini Maria Luciani • Art UpClose - World Edition 2016 — a Survey of Contemporary Art • Carnival di Venezia 2019 Book representation may – November 2019 • Art international Contemporary Magazine May – June 2018 – 1page representation.

• Art & Life 2018 Online Art Book edited by F.A.W.A Fine Art World Academy.

• Spoleto Arte carnival dell Arte a Venezia Scuola Grande Di San Teodoro Venezia book representation Editione Promoter Arte Milano Art Gallery & Spoleto Arte page 22-23 Articles • Bransjemagasinet – Kunstner i slektens fotspor 2017 • Norsk Roseforening 2016 – article Aase Birkhaug Art • Art Arena Magazine New York Blossoms of Brillicane 2017 • Art Arena Magazine New York Floral Psychology 2017 • Outlook Magazine Erin Stobie – Nurturing with Nature 2017 • Art Monaco Magazine – Aase Birkhaug Art 2016 • Fanaposten febr 2018 – Rosenes Dronning – Queen of Roses • Article in MAD Gallery Milano – Rose in Universe – The Book The Rose Garden. April 2018 • Healing By Design published UK in Magazine Healing Today, in the Norwegian Rose Association and the Swedish Rose Accosiation 2003 Art Critics • Salvatore Russo Rome Italy – Queen of Roses 2017 • Amsterdam Whitney Gallery New York Spectral Celebrations 2017 • Sandro Serradifalco Milano Juli 2017 Art Crtics • Vittorio Sgarbi art critic July 2017 • Heinz Pleiner art critic Mamag modern art museum October 2016 • Elmadani Belmadani professor in Art – Taza Marokko 2016-2017 Wild Rose • Carlo Greco Mad Gallery Milano March 2018 Watercolour and tempera, 15 x 10 cm, 2017 Video productions • Amsterdam whitney Gallery New York June-August 2017 – Spectral Celebrations Aase Birkhaug - Art • The Florence Bienniale 2017 – video production by Art Tours International by Viviana Poullo New York & Jeff Tubesa New York.

• Amsterdam whitney Gallery New York – Valentines Soiree – Romancing the Rose by Aase Birkhaug – Art -the 2nd of February until the 14th of March 2018

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Quotation : Article in MAD Gallery April 2018. They wrote If Zeus wanted to donate a kingdom GALLERY MILANO to the flowers, the rose would reign over all.

(Saffo) I love this artist and her amazing work “Rose in Universe”: she is Aase Birkhaug <3 for MAD

List of of Works List List of Works Works Rose --Oil xx24 Rose Cornelia -canvas, Oil on18 canvas, 18 x2012 24 cm, 2012 RoseCornelia Cornelia Oilon oncanvas, 18 24cm, cm, 2012

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Spring Universe --2016 canvas cm in Universe - 2016on acrylic on27x25 canvas 27x25 cm Springin inSpring Universe 2016acrylic acrylic on canvas 27x25 cm

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Roses Symphony --Tempera on xx27 in Symphony - Tempera on22 canvas, 22 x2009 27 cm, 2009 Rosesin inRoses Symphony Tempera oncanvas, canvas, 22 27cm, cm, 2009 Princesse of --Tempera on xx46 Princesse Roses - Tempera on37 canvas, 37 x 46 cm Princesse ofRoses Rosesof Tempera oncanvas, canvas, 37 46cm cm

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Abstract Autumn Roses on xx24 Roses - Tempera on18 canvas, 18 x2015 24 cm, 2015 AbstractAbstract AutumnAutumn Roses-- Tempera Tempera oncanvas, canvas, 18 24cm, cm, 2015

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My --Charcoal on 32 xx44 My Roses - Charcoal on 32 x2009 44 cm, 2009 MyRoses Roses Charcoal onpaper, paper, 32paper, 44cm, cm, 2009

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Rose --Watercolor, 10 Rose II Arboretet Rosaret Arboretet - Watercolor, 10 x2015 15 cm, 2015 RoseIIIIRosaret Rosaret Arboretet Watercolor, 10xx15 15cm, cm, 2015

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Blusch --Oil xx18 Blusch Damask -canvas, Oil on12 canvas, 12 x2010 18 cm, 2010 BluschDamask Damask Oilon oncanvas, 12 18cm, cm, 2010

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Rose II--Tempera on xx30 Rose in Autumn I - Tempera on24 canvas, 24 x2010 30 cm, 2010 Rosein inAutumn Autumn Tempera oncanvas, canvas, 24 30cm, cm, 2010

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Rose IIII--Tempera on xx30 Rose in Autumn II - Tempera on24 canvas, 24 x2010 30 cm, 2010 Rosein inAutumn Autumn Tempera oncanvas, canvas, 24 30cm, cm, 2010

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Rose Marie Henriette --Oil xx24 Rose Reine Marie Henriette -canvas, Oil on18 canvas, 18 x2012 24 cm, 2012 RoseReine Reine Marie Henriette Oilon oncanvas, 18 24cm, cm, 2012

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Rose xx30 Rose -Ispahan -canvas, Oil on24 canvas, 24 x2012 30 cm, 2012 RoseIspahan Ispahan -Oil Oilon oncanvas, 24 30cm, cm, 2012

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Roses --Watercolour on xx26 II - Watercolour on26 canvas, 26 x2015 26 cm, 2015 RosesIIIIRoses Watercolour oncanvas, canvas, 26 26cm, cm, 2015

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My IIIIRoses --Charcoal on 33 xx40 My II - Charcoal on 33 x 40 cm MyRoses Roses Charcoal onpaper, paper, 33paper, 40cm cm

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Rose II--Watercolor and 10 de L Arborete I - Watercolor and tempera, 10 x2015 15 cm, 2015 Rosede deLRose LArborete Arborete Watercolor andtempera, tempera, 10xx15 15cm, cm, 2015

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Red Rose 10 aWatercolour, Rose - Watercolour, 10 x2013 15 cm, 2013 Redas asaaRed Roseas--Watercolour, 10xx15 15cm, cm, 2013

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Abstract Roses tempera, 10 Roses - Watercolour 10 x2015 15 cm, 2015 AbstractAbstract Roses--Watercolour Watercolour tempera,tempera, 10xx15 15cm, cm, 2015 Aase AaseBirkhaug Birkhaug Tryllerose --Magic -Watercolor --30x21 2004 Tryllerose -Rose Magic Rose -Watercolor -cm, 30x21 Tryllerose MagicRose -Watercolor 30x21cm, 2004cm, 2004

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Blue xx24 Blue -Heaven -canvas, Oil on18 canvas, 18 x2012 24 cm, 2012 BlueHeaven Heaven -Oil Oilon oncanvas, 18 24cm, cm, 2012

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Abstract Roses Tempera on xx27 I - Tempera on22 canvas, 22 x2012 27 cm, 2012 AbstractAbstract RosesII--Roses Tempera oncanvas, canvas, 22 27cm, cm, 2012

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Autumn Roses on xx18 Roses - Tempera on12 canvas, 12 x2015 18 cm, 2015 AutumnAutumn Roses--Tempera Tempera oncanvas, canvas, 12 18cm, cm, 2015

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Roses Anna Ibsen) Roses (by Anna--Oil Ibsen) -canvas Oil on canvas Roses(by (by Anna Ibsen) Oilon oncanvas

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Rose Rose de Paradise Rosede deParadise Paradise Abstract Autumn Roses 23 Roses - Watercolour, 23 x2015 30 cm, 2015 AbstractAbstract AutumnAutumn Roses--Watercolour, Watercolour, 23xx30 30cm, cm, 2015

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Colour ColourMe MeChocolate ChocolateRoses Roses&&Wildberry Wildberry- -Oil Oilononcanvas canvas

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Rose RoseAmadeus AmadeusIIIIII- Watercolour, - Watercolour,1010x x1010cm, cm,2004 2004

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Rose Rose&&Muffin Muffin- Oil - Oilononcanvas, canvas,2727x x2727cm, cm,2012 2012

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Shades ShadesofofRoses Roses- Tempera - Temperaononcanvas, canvas,2020x x4040cm, cm,2015 2015 Rose RoseLouis Louis- Xavier - XavierAuguste AugusteMeillez Meillez- Watercolour, - Watercolour,1010x x1515cm, cm,2015 2015

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Aase Birkhaug Colour Me Chocolate Roses & Wildberry - Oil on canvas

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Rose Amadeus III - Watercolour, 10 x 10 cm, 2004

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Rose & Muffin - Oil on canvas, 27 x 27 cm, 2012

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List of Works

Shades of Roses - Tempera on canvas, 20 x 40 cm, 2015

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Rose Louis - Xavier Auguste Meillez - Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2015 5 Rose Cornelia - Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2012 Autumn Rose II - Tempera on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2015 6 Spring in Universe - 2016 acrylic on canvas 27x25 cm Rose Felicite Parmentier 8-9 Roses in Symphony - Tempera on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, 2009 Charles de Mills - Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2010 10-11 Princesse of Roses - Tempera on canvas, 37 x 46 cm Rose Louis Zavier & Auguste Miellez - Watercolour and tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015 14-15 Abstract Autumn Roses - Tempera on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2015 In the garden of Eden III - Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2004 16 My Roses - Charcoal on paper, 32 x 44 cm, 2009 Rose de Paradise II - Watercolour and tempera on canvas, 2016 18 Rose II Rosaret Arboretet - Watercolor, 10 x 15 cm, 2015 Rose de L’Arborete - Watercolor and tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015 20-21 Blusch Damask - Oil on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2010 Yellow Roses - Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2012 22 Rose in Autumn I - Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010 Autumn Roses II - Tempera on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2015 22 Rose in Autumn II - Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010 In my Rosegarden - Watercolour and tempera, 24 x 30 cm, 1992 23 Rose Reine Marie Henriette - Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2012 Rose De LRose Arborete II - Watercolour Watercolor, 10 x 15 cm, 2015 10 x 15 cm, 2015 Autumn D’or III and gold tempera, 24 Rose Ispahan - Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2012 Roses BlossomsPlantier of Brilliance Rose Madame – Watercolor tempera and gouache 26 Roses II - Watercolour on canvas,tempera 26 x 26 cm, Rose Madame Plantier - Watercolor and2015 gouche Queen of Paradise Roses 28 MyRose Roses II - Charcoal paper, 3315x x4010cm Wild - Watercolor andontempera, cm, 2017 Wild Rose - Watercolour and tempera, 15 x 10 cm, 2017 29 RoseofdeParadise L Arborete I - Watercolor and tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015 Queen Roses Rose deasParadise Red a Rose -I Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2013

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Rose de Paradise Abstract Roses - Watercolour tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Paradise Roses- Magic - Tempera canvas, 20 -x40 cm,cm, 20182004 Tryllerose Roseon -Watercolor 30x21

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Princess of Paradise 82 37 Blue Heaven - OilRoses on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2012 Late Autumn Rose 38-39 Wild84Rose Abstract Roses I - Tempera on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, 2012 Watercolour and tempera, 15 x 10 cm, Rose de L Arborete I - Watercolor and tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015 842017 40 Autumn Roses - Tempera on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2015 Rose de Paradisde III 86-87 41 Roses (by Anna Ibsen) - Oil on canvas Princess of Roses 88 42-43 Rose de Paradise Late Summer Rose - Watercolor, 10 x 15 cm, 2004 90 44 Abstract Autumn Roses - Watercolour, 23 x 30 cm, 2015 Rosariet II - Watercolor, 26 x 26 cm, 2015 91 Rose in Universe - Tempera and gold, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Rose III Rosariet Arborette - Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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The Rose Garden - Work in progress - Tempera on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2018

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List of Works Autumn Rose D or I Rose Cornelia - Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2012 Princesse of Roses II - Tempera and Gold on paper, 10 x15 cm, 2017 Spring Universe - 2016 acrylic18 onxcanvas 27x25 cm Rose OmarinKayam - Oil on canvas, 24, 2012 Symphony - Tempera on canvas, x 27 cm, 2009 TheRoses Rose in Inside - Tempera on paper, 10 x 15,22 2016

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Princesse Tempera onand canvas, x 46 cm Autumn RoseofD’Roses or III - Watercolor gold 37 tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Rose D Chagall I Abstract Autumn Roses - Tempera on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2015

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My Roses - Charcoal on paper, 32 x 44 cm, 2009

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Rose II Rosaret Arboretet - Watercolor, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Blusch Damask - Oil on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2010

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Rose in Autumn I - Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

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Rose in Autumn II - Tempera on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2010

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Rose Reine Marie Henriette - Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2012

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Rose Ispahan - Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2012

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Roses II - Watercolour on canvas, 26 x 26 cm, 2015

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My Roses II - Charcoal on paper, 33 x 40 cm

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Rose de L Arborete I - Watercolor and tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Red as a Rose - Watercolour, 10 x 15 cm, 2013

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Abstract Roses - Watercolour tempera, 10 x 15 cm, 2015

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Tryllerose - Magic Rose -Watercolor - 30x21 cm, 2004

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Blue Heaven - Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2012

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Abstract Roses I - Tempera on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, 2012

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Autumn Roses - Tempera on canvas, 12 x 18 cm, 2015

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Roses (by Anna Ibsen) - Oil on canvas

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Rose de Paradise Birkhaug’s Abstract Autumn Roses - Watercolour, 23 xAase 30 cm, 2015 Promocard

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