To bring ties to the mess
The brush of Aðalheiði gets to flow freely over the image surface when she paints her natural images. Her images are abstract, but in them there is always this feeling for the tangible nature that is all around. Aðalheiður sees everywhere in nature colors, lines and shapes and brings them to oil or watercolors so that the viewer senses both the distance and the flow, but the likes of the play that lives behind. It is easy to get lost in her pictures and almost find the smell of spring which is around the corner. Aðalheiði's new exhibition, Birting, will be opened in the graphics hall in Hafnarhús 6 March.
The abstract — the youth of the youth
The visual art has been a companion of Aðalheiði all the time. She remembers as a child playing with numbers from her mom's sewing box or browsing through a pile of color tests. Immediately in childhood, it fascinated her to arrange colors, shapes and patterns to see what fit best.
« I remember when I was a child I got a big folder with wallpaper tests; Some were rosy and others monotonous, in all kinds of colors. I played to browse this and compare the pages to see what fit best together, ”says Aðalheiður, laughing.
« This has affected me. And so I had a lot to play with a number of mom. I showered it and arranged the numbers and paddled in the colors. It was some kind of abstract dung! Maybe that's what I'm involuntarily to do in the painting. «
Picking up in the organic
« Oil and watercolor impress me as much, but are really different media to work with. In the watercolor are these clear colors and a lot of flow, but I work very quickly with the watercolors. In the painting I work bigger and there is more. They become even more abstract than the watercolor works, ”says Aðalheiður, but in her works you can see countless shapes and lines.
There is lightness in the works of Aðalheiði and it is not certain that you find the smell of spring.
« Actually, I also work the oil paintings thin, but can then allow me to paint more. I have a big and bright studio to the east where we own land and there I work the oil works, but the watercolor works I work at home in Reykjavik. I always apply for it organic and then it is often my garden outside that will be the source. However, it is never necessarily conscious; I take what is on my eyes and then sit with the paper and the colors just come. The same thing happens when I'm in the countryside; The colors are stuck in the head and then end on the canvas. I go straight to work without sketching or deciding anything in advance. Maybe I'm trying to get the mess on the mess. I'm just in the flow and let nothing bother me. I am in direct contact with nature. »
The exhibition Birting will be open from 6 to 23 March. Aðalheiður says the name can both refer to what appears to one and the same in the light.
« I publish this vision but then we are also going into the spring and it is published. »
There is a detailed interview with Aðalheiði in the Sunday newspaper Morgunblaðið this weekend.
