Artist
About Lina Valland Lyngset
COLOUR is my passion and the driving force behind all my pictures. Most of the paintings are made up of several layers of paint, and have different structural surfaces. I let the paintings mature a lot during the process, and work on many canvases parallel. Many of my images have taken many months or even years to be completed
The freedom of the artistic process is important to me. I follow the intuition; the draw in the stomach towards certain colours, lines and motifs. Through painting, I explore emotions and experiences that are not available to me through words. I find that more random techniques such as letting paint drain on lying canvas, assist me in this exploration. Later in the process, figurative forms might recur. The colours often play the main role, and the distinctive expression appears after several layers. Instead of blending the colours completely, I use many different colours side by side in small areas or strokes, and that makes both my paintings and the giclee prints more like chameleons. The colours changes due to lighting and surrounding colours, so they tend to blend in, even if they are perceived as colourful.
