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ROLF JANssON

Lives and works in Horten, norway
 www.studio.no
artist contact
 rjansson@broadpark.no
Although he studied fine art in the late 1960s in Copenhagen, Jansson painting ad Illustration. “In the late 1980s there was an explotion in
took the long way around to discover his artistic calling. Caught the commercial art scene, with a lot more freedom in the use of art
up in the self-exploration movement in the 1970s, he worked in a for Illustration,” he says. “For me it was a kind of revolution.” In his
variety of positions, including stints as a minister and a merchant nearly 16-year career, Jansson has taken part in an other revolution
seaman (a career cut short by chronic seasickness). Then in 1984 as well. Most of his illustrations Will start as hand-painted gouache,
he concieved an idea of a short animated film, which he presented but now when a painting is finished he just scans it, then uses
to the Norwegian Broadcasting System. With funding and technical the Computer to adjust color and manipulate details. Completed
help from the network, he put together his five minute Film, a fantasy images are transmitted from e-mail to his Mountain studio to clients
about a man caught in a frame who finally escapes by turning himself throughout Europe. “The computer has made a big difference to me,”
inside out. The film proved oddly prophetic. After its broadcasts, he says. It means that I can live in this small village, and the computer
commisions began to come in for more artwork, And before long brings me the whole world.”
Jansson had turned from other pursuits to concentrate entirely on Hemisphere (United Airline Inflight-magazine)

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