Kristin Vestgard
“It’s an intuitive process. In chaos, I play with figures, altering their spaces, wiping off and keeping marks from previous layers. While creating new spaces over others until I obtain a certain atmosphere and the expression that I want…which is something I find while going along…a history is built into the canvas, and adds weight and poetry to the final image… I paint out of my inner world with all the sights, emotions, thoughts, people, things, atmospheres and the history that runs through me. It all shapes what happens on the canvas…almost like a diary with no words, based in a reality seen through my eyes. It has dreams, fantasies and sort of inner adventures tangled in between the pure reality, playing between the restless and standing still, always in a flux…a playfulness running in and out of the layers of oil paint, with a deep sincere essence holding it together. To me my paintings hold many secrets…and I like it that way. It gives them space to breathe and live their own lives; just like people…they have a sea of secrets too…”
Kristin Vestgard was born in Norway in 1976 and studied at Nordfjord Folk High School – Painting and Drawing; 1995 – 1996, Oslo Painting and Drawing school; 1996 – 1997, Falmouth College of Arts, graduating with a First class BA Honour degree in 2000.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and Norway and her paintings can be found in private collections worldwide.
Solo Exhibitions:
Cornwall Contemporary, April 2022
Cornwall Contemporary, July 2021
Cornwall Contemporary, May 2019
Cornwall Contemporary, December 2017
Cornwall Contemporary, October 2016
Northcote Gallery, London, March 2015
Badcocks Gallery at Anthony Hepworth Gallery, August 2014
Det Gule Galleri, Stavern, Norway 2014
Gallery Son, Son, Norway 2013
Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire, UK, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2008-2006
Gulden Kunstverk, Norway, 2008, 2011
Kihle Galleri, Horten, Norway, 2013
Galleri Smalgangen, Åsgårstrand, Norway, 2012
Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, UK; 2012
Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall, UK; 2012-2000
Kihle Galleriet, Horten, Norway, 2002
Group exhibitions:
Consenses, Marthas Vinyard, USA 2015
Hampstead Affordable Art Fair, London, June, 2015
Lapada Arts and Antiques Fair, London , UK, 2014
Northcote Gallery, London, 2014
Galleri Ask, Åsgårdstrand, Norway, 2013
Hilleborg Kunstforening,, Denmark, 2013
AAF, Badcocks Gallery, 2013
Josie Eastwood, Hampshire, UK, 2012, 2013
Bo Lee Gallery, UK, August; 2011
Ibsenhuset, Skien, Norway, Januar; 2009
Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway; 2009
Gulden Kunstverk, Norway, March; 2012
Badcocks Gallery, UK, December; 2011-2000
Galleri Ask, Norway, December; 2007, 2009, 2010
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK; 2005
Vitrious Contemporaray, Truro, UK; 2004
City and Thompsons Gallery, London, UK; 2004
Ted Litchfield Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK; 2002
Ted Litchfield Gallery, Voltaire Chapel, London; 2001
Ted Litchfield Gallery, London: 2000
Degree show, Falmouth College of Arts; 2000
Chelsea Art Fair, UK, 2001
Battersea Art Fair, UK, 2000-2012
Collections:
Falmouth College of Arts and numerous private collections all over the world.
Membership:
Norske billed kunstnere
Vestfold bildende kunstnere
Projects: Consenses, New York.
