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ALLIS LYSNE

Lives and works in Bengtsfors, Sweden
www.allis.no

Recognized by many as one of the best female sail ship of Hestman, she also studied abstract art by Dr. Professor
painters in Norway, Allis Lysne says it might have to do with Daoud Anad in Potsdam (originally from Bagdad) and later
her being born in Farsund a small town south in the country, by professor of modern art Georg Suttner in Stockholm.
which is well known for its shipping activity. With several She has participated in many exhibitions in Norway, Sweden
members of her family as sailors beside her self just loving and Germany so far. Both separate and collective, and

the sea, it was quite natural for her starting to draw and paint pictures with her signature decorates many walls, both public
even as a young girl, focusing on coastline motives and old and private in several European countries.
sail ships. Born in 1950 she has now reached a respectful Painting a dramatic but beautiful picture of Mary Celeste,

age of which much time has been dedicated to her artwork. the magic sail ship found empty fighting the waves on
In her younger years she worked as a successful sales agent the Atlantic Ocean, her husband asked about what had
for Pierre Cardin in Norway, but 30 years ago she went for happened. No one knows, but many books have been written
the art full time. Interest and practice creates skills and more suggesting different things, from the most serious to the
practice which at last creates a good product. wildest fantasy. Her husband could not resist the temptation

of presenting his own idea and wrote a 300 page hardcover
Married to Roald Danielsen for almost 50 years, author of thriller about this doomed sail ship woven into a story of
several books, having four sons and ten grandchildren which modern art crime. Just in Norwegian though.

of course are all very proud of their artistic grandmother. Allis Lysne however does not only paint sail ships. She
Twenty years ago Allis Lysne and her husband moved to paints landscapes from the countryside and mountains as
Sweden, as she became a student of another Norwegian well as coastline, portraits and still life, flowers as well as
painter living there, marine- and sail ship painter Carl Bernhard fantasy and so on, mostly in oil, but also acrylic. Her own
Hestman. Instead of moving back to Norway, she stayed in private gallery in Dalsland, measures 200 square meters and
ARTIST Sweden. Her teacher has now passed away, but she carries displays many of her best paintings. One prominent neighbor

further the fine art she learned by him, loved by so many is the famous Steneby-Skolan, educating several hundred
interested in the sea and old ships. Besides being a student international art and handcraft students.

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