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RIKKE LINE ANDREASEN

Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
www.instagram.com/rikkelineandreasen/

A little bit about me and my work. I am a City person, I painted a series of deer from the idea of making
currently I live in Copenhagen, previously I`ve lived my own personal interpretation of the traditional

in London, Barcelona and Berlin. I love living in the paintings of “the roaring stag". In these works I tried
big city with all its noise, light and vibrant life, with to create a beautiful world in a grotesque universe
people from all different cultures, and different by adding some edge to the traditional motif through
environments, and where music, Food, Architecture, contrasts, humor and irony. As an extension of my
Theater and Art are easily accessible. I grew up in deer-paintings, I continued in the animal kingdom

a small town by the sea, surrounded by beautiful and painted goats, bears, a moose and Birds. This
Forests and fields. And when I'm in the nature today, I time I chose to make the "ugliness" such as garbage
almost feel that I am in a holy place - nature's beauty, beautiful by neutralizing the colors, but still keep it in

wildness and fragility are magical to me. focus by making the texture lifelike. I constantly seek
to challenge myself by trying out new paint styles and
Therefore it hurts me and it scares me, when I see experimenting with the reproduction of texture such
how we humans destroy and pollute our Planet. I try as glass, metal and plastic. I try to keep my paintings
to express these feelings in my paintings. I paint the balance somewhere between reality and fantasy.

images that for some reason pops up in my head,
or I deliberately provoke inspired by something I “Forbidden Love” I painted because I was provoked by
have heard, seen or experienced. Once an idea for Russia's gay legislation, and “Self-defense on sale“-

a painting has manifested itself in my head, it stays because I am horrified by USA`s Weapons legislation,
until it has been painted on to the canvas. I know the I have used Barbie dolls to emphasize how wrong I
ARTIST painting is finished when the idea has left my mind. believe that their human priorities are. I hope the

audience will view my paintings with contemplation,
Currently my work involves mixing nature with man-
made objects. This theme began seven years ago when but also with a smile.

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