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I have not updated the 2010 gallery all year. However, this does not mean that I haven't been productive; I have been making steady progress throughout the year (amid all the diapers) and I am going to put up some of the stuff I have made before the end of the year.

In Situ 2

Exhibition over

As you may have seen in my last post, I had an exhibition during may, which was generally speaking politely ignored by just about everyone. While this is disappointing for me, it leaves me with a pretty basic question; what is my reason for doing this?

The answer, like it has been before, is that I like doing the painting, so I think I'll keep doing that, and we'll see what happens. As you can see above, there was at least one satisfied customer.

Exhibition

2010

The new year started on a sad note for my family, as my mother passed away from cancer in january. I have been painting quite a bit since then, but I am waiting to publish the paintings on the website, as they seem to form some sort of coherent whole, and I want to see where I/they end up before I make them available.

Also, it looks like I might put on an local exhibition of sorts in May. I plan to email people with the details if it pans out.

Finally, the local division of Tekna, the association of technical and scientific academics, decided to use one of my paintings as part of their annual prize for innovation. Here is a link;

https://www.tekna.no/portal/page/portal/tekna/aktuelt/artikkel?p_document_id=793609

For non-Norwegians, they gave the prize to a firm that seem to use biological entities, like shellfish, to detect pollution around oilrigs.

Sigurd.

As you might be able to deduce from the last few paintings in the 2009 section, I have recently become a father. I have done one painting of Karen pregnant, one of Sigurd asleep in his crib, and one of a more freeform jumble of impressions from the birth. Here is the little dude;

After easter, I decided to have a go at painting, from photos, some of the mountains from around my family's cabin. This is a pretty different motif from what I usually do; more decorative and perhaps also less dense with meaning and emotion.