Artist statement
My work focuses on the psychological states attained by being lost in the aesthetics of poetry, music and other creative mediums.
The lyrical nature of the work lends itself to aspects of illustration and design mingled with the scale, techniques and studio practices of fine art making. I capture dream like impressions and introspective moments from life that, when interpreted in my painting, make for a slightly abstracted representation of the world around me.
The compositions employ traditional elements of painting concerned with composition, light and dark, color and form yet depart from representational painting with elements of text and unusual color shifts. A collage of images emerges in the work, placing the viewer in a very personal vantage point of my subject matter. Ethereal states frozen in each piece capture states of mind that are beautifully unresolved
BIOGRAPHY
Randi Strand is an Norwegian artist and she was born and raised in a small town in Valdres with only a few hundreds of souls.
Strand has done a number of exhibitions, she is represented by several professional galleries and has a large audience. Strand works with photography, digital artwork, collage, acrylic paint, oil crayon, mixed media and lithography. She experiments with different techniques, which together becomes her personal expression.