Jorunn Mulen was born in Sunnfjord, Norway in 1973.

She has had an extensive education beginning by studying English at Harvard University, USA from 1992 - 1993 followed by Philosophy at University of Bergen, Norway and then an Art & Design Foundation at Mo & Jolster, Norway and Visual Communication at Fagerlia VGS, Norway. She then gained a BA Honours in Illustration at Falmouth College of Art and also an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice, completing her studies in 2005.

She has won various grants and fellowships including Norway Young Talent Award and Grafill (Association for Illustrators in Norway) Bologna Book Fair- travel grant and has also exhibited extensively at venues including Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall, Galleri Gathe, Bergen, Norway, Kunstnarsenteret (Art Centre), Førde, Norway, University College Falmouth, ŒHyperMart&Mac226; UK, Førdehuset, Førde, Norway, Falmouth Art Centre, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, Førdehuset, Førde, Norway, ŒYoung talents in Sogn & Fjordane.

She currently lives in Norway but returns often to paint in Falmouth, Cornwall.

“Through recognizing the traces left by experience that we use to create a persona, I compose my stories. They have a mixture of reality and imagination but also a significant truth which allows them to evoke and intrigue the viewer.
“My stories become ballads in various forms, sometimes in the shape of a book.
“They are about finding someone or something within the pages. Essentially they are about finding the way home within yourself.
“Sometimes I work with text, aiming to set words in motion. When the words become alive they allow the image to tell a different layer of the story.
“When making the journey towards an open horizon or towards what creates a sense of calm beauty inside, in recognizing the poetic and the simple, I find the foundations for my stories.
“My work has a raw and pure quality as well as it lets a fragile and tender beauty shine through it, like the way a child perceives the world.
“Together these fragments of intuitive approaches to expressing life, take place when searching for a way that will inevitably lead me home.”