I AM NATURE - ARTIST EVA KURSETH IMER
From abstract painting, figurative drawing and art pedagogy to digital art. My life is all about navigating and managing creativity.
A fusion of pixel and pigment
As an artist and educator, I have been touched by so much, so many artistic expressions. This has given me a rich professional and artistic platform as a starting point for my own art work. It has led me from the expressive, to an intuitive and exploratory process, into the abstract, to the non-figurative. Today, my oeuvre is a tapestry of knowledge from a long artistic life and an inner force to push artistic boundaries and transcend traditional expressions and value. Digital brings my story together in a meaningful new whole.
Through the photographer's lens
With a camera, I search for natural areas by the coast, forest or in the mountains and I seek an inner rhythm, an interaction between me and nature. I am looking for colors, lines, rhythms, shapes that speak to my inner artist, that "ignite" my abstract imagination and love of color. I seek the intangible—cutouts charged with visual emotion and meaning.
The camera becomes a tool where I zoom in and out to find areas that can become parts of surfaces, lines and colors in new stories. This is how I create a fusion between painting and photography.
Digital alkymi
Through editing and manipulation, I create new life in images or completely new images, and I blur the relationship between reality and fantasy. This exploration allows me to create compositions that speak to the limitless possibilities technology offers, providing viewers with a visual experience that transcends the limitations of the physical world. I can find the human in a stone or combine several images into abstract pictorial spaces that do not otherwise exist.
Abstract explorations
I have worked with abstract painting for a number of years and have had a number of major exhibitions.
In the beginning, I explored the expressive and intuitive, chaos and order, a deep interest in how the psyche creates images in chaos and order in the random. The canvas became a space where emotions, colors and shapes are transformed into compositions and strong psychological narratives. Over the years, the pictures became simpler and easier and easier, and the journey ended up in completely abstract paintings.
Figuration as a tool and intuitive process
Drawing has been a fundamental language, throughout life. I was the cartoonist, the one who could draw, and as early as puberty I discovered that it was as if I had contact with my inner self through the line. I could put my hand on the sheet and then a line came out of me, as if I had something inside me I could contact with the pencil or the pen split and then a story appeared on the sheet. Images with deep psychological meaning, something that put images and language on something I couldn't put into words otherwise.
Art education and dissemination
My journey extends beyond my many artistic expressions, intertwined with a rich and long history in art education. Teaching has been a cornerstone of my career. First as a teacher at Strykejernet Art School then I started my own school, first as Living Workshop, then it became Nydalen Art School. I have had the pleasure of creating education for a wide range of artists. The teaching was not only about imparting technical skills, but also a deep understanding of the transformative power of art through intuitive and creative work. The school's large studios were for me spaces where professionalism and creativity met lived lives, which became a catalyst for intuitive and artistic development.
Comprehensiveness and depth
As my artistic journey continues to unfold, the synthesis of photography, digital art, and abstract painting becomes a harmonious whole. It is a narrative shaped by my passion and commitment, and an unwavering inner pull towards artistic evolution. My art invites viewers to reflect on the intersection of tradition and technology and the material and the virtual. In my images, pixels and pigments converge and create a narrative that extends beyond the boundaries of the canvas.
