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View fullsize The only thing left in my old studio is one of the Mirko paintings, it seems fitting for today
View fullsize Some works have + 1000 layers of oil and take years, sometimes more than a decade. Others are one or two thin layers and are finished in a day. Drying, pigment, oil, time. The difference is not speed or intention. It is material, drying, time, and w
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View fullsize Meanwhile ✨ #TheGooThatLivesOnInMyHeart #35YearOldTshirt #TheGreenPeriod #TheBlackInk90s #MarieBirkedal
View fullsize 3 different decades … but the story remains the same.
View fullsize Evening walk and old friends coming to the rescue CAConrad + Manet + Cat Stickers
View fullsize W’s Cut Packing and realizing almost all my paintings ought to be diptychs. The work still decides, always. Lately grey, black, earth, some sap green oil + Memento Mori have entered again after being gone for a decade.
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View fullsize Blueprints Inside, watercolor on prepared paper, 68 x 44 cm now also on the website, soon the studio-considerations too. 1. Materiality is primary 2. The tactile is trustworthy 3. Outcome matters 4. Intuition + rigor 5. If you know if your work beg
View fullsize Winstons and violet dawns, acrylic on prepared paper, 68 x 44 cm Recently, I’ve updated my website with a newsletter and with this: “Winston and Violet Dawns” Winston is of course the cigarettes, red Winston’s, it’s abo
View fullsize Beautiful on a floor but on a canvas it would be so bad #studionight #painterspainter #mariebirkedal
View fullsize Stars and Saints The material … more a membrane than surface… the pigment doesn’t sit on top, it goes into the fabric, gets absorbed, stays there. The title a bit heavy… but the painting doesn’t illustrate. It point
View fullsize Steir, Frankenthaler, Rauschenberg, Bradley, Campau, Kim, Kelly, Rothko, Angelico — it’s a related but different red I’m searching for. Walking blindfolded after a sound signal, like in my text Walk After the Sound (Gå efter