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Gro Folkan

Lives and works in Tromsoe and Oslo, Norway
https://www.grofolkan.no/

Gro Folkan was born in 1949 in Oslo, Norway and she lives
between Oslo and Tromsoe. She studied Art at the National

Art Academy in Oslo. She has had 29 solo exhibitions of her
paintings in leading galleries in Norway and abroad and has
also taken part in numerous joint exhibitions. Her works
have been purchased by the Norwegian National Gallery,

the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, the National Bank
of Norway, Art collections , national universities, instititions,
and national Offices. Her most resent exhibition was in New
York in 2019, and she will exhibit in Milan in 2020, the theme

of her recent exhibitions is ’FEMALE RUNES’.

’My pictures are instruments, like runes, used for thousand

of years by Northern peoples to invoke hidden aspects of
reality. The real pictures, the images are not the lines and
colours on my canvases, but the images coming into being
in the mind of the onlooker’.

I have worked for many years to develop a technique suitable
for my purpose. I use metals a lot : gold,silver, brass, copper,
aluminum, tin, smoked silver, paladium, platinum. If suitable I
treat them chemically for the deeper layers of the artwork to
TOP CONTEMPOR ARY ARTISTS colours that change depending on the angle of view. This is
come through and create new colours. I also use interference

difficult to get illustrated in static digital displays.

STREAM, 2010 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 50.3X43.3 IN. | 128X110 CM.
INTERFERENCE COLOUR 97X88 CM.
40 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, 2008 ACRYLIC, OXIDIZED BRASS,