Scandi-lionTM Nordic Art by Claire Anne Thoen
 
 
Norse-folk art flavored work in colored pencil & acrylic
 
These images are inspired by medieval & immigrant folk art including wall paintings, weavings and domestic utensils.  I admire the work of folk artists who enhance daily life by making the ordinary, extraordinary. I am especially fond of the slightly awkward and very engaging figurative work of itinerant “old country” artists. It is these images that I have been studying.
 
There are many fine practitioners of rosemaling today and I do not attempt this art form.  Rather I am exploring a rich mine of older and more archaic imagery that has had very little exposure.  In researching images from the 1100’s to 1900, I have been continually delighted by work that seems to be, at once, both knowing and naïve.
 
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Freya Advises I sat the figures from Eidsborg kyrkje circa 1650 in a garden as Freya and Baldar What will Freya advise? WaterColor Pencil Original $325 8 1/2 x 12 Giclée print available $90 Cards $4
How Love Doth Grow Figures inspired by Sondre Busterud 1763 – 1842 peek around a tree connecting earth, sky & growth of all living things. Color Pencil Original $375 10 x 14 Giclée print $90 Cards $4
The Wedding Party Taken from Tarbjørn Havradalen, 1798 – 1845; the archaic faces have that startled look that many feel on wedding days. WaterColor Pencil Original $400 13 x 18 Giclée print available $120 Cards $4
Stabbur on a Mound of Tradition The symmetrical rendering of this stabbur - storage building - emphasizes its centrality to Norwegian iconography. Colored Pencil Original $325 Framed Color Pencil over Giclée $225 10 x 12 Giclée print $85 Cards $3
Tendril Dragons Not fierce enough to protect a Viking ship, these intertwining dragons vie for your attention. Color Pencil Original $475 20 x 20 Giclée print $150 Cards $3 & $4
Vale of Valdres 1936 Color Pencil Original Sold 8 x 10 print $30 Cards $4.00
 
 
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     0 sizes are to the nearest inch and not to be used for matting or framing purposes
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   0 all Originals include the archival matted and framed price
 
 
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Nordic Hart The cloud is from Norse roping motifs, the peaks stylize mountains and the flower are from a 1799 Hedalen chest Color Pencil Original $200 10 x 10 Giclée print available $85 Cards $3
The Offering I brought Bjørn Bjaalid (1836) ladies into this garden; After offering flowers do you think the friends will share their letters? Pastel Pencil Original $500 24 x 30 Giclée print available $150 Cards $3 - 4.00
Rosie the Rosmål Gal Rosie started life as a vase on a trunk by Knut Hakisflote 1850. Flowers became her head & wheat became her braids. Color Pencil Original $350 11 x 12 Giclée print available $90 Cards $4.00