Scan Magazine | Gallery of the Month | Norway
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Gallery of the Month, Norway
Art from the Arctics Inspired by the towering mountains, the ever-changing seasons and the countless fjords of the northern parts of Norway, artist Anne Gundersen creates beautiful photo collages that play on a sense of belonging, of childhood memories and of blissful melancholy. By Alyssa Nilsen | Photos: Anne Gundersen
Having grown up among the wonderfully wild nature of Nordland, a northern region of Norway just below the Arctic Circle, Anne Gundersen feels at one with the nature, the history and the culture of the north. Living in Utskarpen in Rana with immediate proximity to five fjords, she draws inspiration from the scenery right outside her door when creating her photo collages. 110 | Issue 113 | June 2018
“I live right in the middle of a giant smorgasbord,” she says about the area surrounding and inspiring her. “I’ve got the fjords, the land, the islands and the nature right here on my doorstep. There’s so much to draw from!” With an extensive career within art, Gundersen started expressing herself visually at a young age, before study-
ing art at Høgskolen i Oslo (HIO) in the Norwegian capital. Having spent years teaching art as well, her belief in the therapeutic abilities of art is mirrored in her dreamy, yet easily recognisable images featuring landscapes, birds, houses, washing lines, flowers, piers and boathouses. “Washing lines are almost like paintings within a landscape when you see them outside,” she says. “The way the laundry is dancing in the wind, all the different colours, the movements… There’s just something positive about it that I remember from my childhood when my grandmother had her washing line