My motivation and force as an artist have always been to question and to explore our touch of darkness in human nature, the world around us and where this is taking us. The comfortable set against the uncomfortable always underlies my motives, which is why I always work from backgrounds painted in black, a technique I began to cultivate during my art education in Norway. This, therefore, forces me to seek out the light in the dark and therefore makes it easier for me to reproduce how I personally see the world around me.

