"I have been painting stones for some time now and playing with double meaning in my paintings and titles. Coming from Iceland where there are still stories about the ‘hidden people’ living in the rocks, in my work I’m dealing with nature, the nature of man, man in the nature and my nature. The paintings are under the strong spell of Icelandic nature. Extreme opposites like fire and ice, black deserts against the glacier, these strong contrasts affect me. The Icelandic highlands are unbelievable and it doesn’t matter how vivid my paintings are, they will never be more colourful than the real thing.
The themes are all my imagination, a collection of memory snap shots, blended with thoughts about the human race. Apart from the rocks, I’m trying to get a hold of painting water, still, running and frozen.
Most of the paintings are acrylics on canvas but I have also been doing some experiments with pigments I bought in the South of France a long time ago. Making ‘patin au vin’ out of white wine, eggs, milk, sugar and pigments. A recipe from a French book I bought with the pigments. Using white wine to paint makes much more sense here near the Mosel than in Iceland."
Gudrun Benedikta, 19.07.2007 Luxembourg