Contact info:
Mail adress: afloenes@hotmail.com or http://afloenes@gmail.com
Anne Grete Flønes was born in 1954 in Trondheim, Norway, she lives in Lillestrøm, a city close to the capital, Oslo. She works in Oslo.
Her passion for art started at an early age. Anne Grete was active in drawing and sketching.
The career as a painter started after her divorce, which the need of something to occupy her mind. She had to find something to live for besides my son. In 1998 she decided she would start to paint. And random events made her to discover an artist named Jørgen Dukan. She took his lessens for almost 10 years. He learn her all about colors and compositions. When she started with painting lessons and the painting become her passion.
Her other source of inspiration is Peter Esdaile and Toril Kojan. Peter Esdaile helped her with the spontaneous, directionless and fumbling way to add colors on the canvas without control. Then clean up the painting, clarifying, structuring and finding solutions for composition. To find out if there will be a figurative or abstract result. On this way I have found much joy, and it has been an exciting journey.
Anne Grete held her first exhibition in 2007 together with a art-friend in Oslo.
Anne Grete experiments with many different techniques, and utilizes various materials to achieve the desired effect. She enjoys working with acrylic, and loves to balance unique colors, movement, energy, texture, and music in her work. Anne Grete’s art is mostly abstract, and she usually paints a woman or a suggested feminine presence. She paints people, animals, flowers and other figures as a representation of strength, wholeheartedness, warmth, and natural softness, as only a mother can be.
As she loves drawing her painting mainly have been figurative. She discovered that she has a wealth of bright colors inside her, and she see that she is a colourist. Basicly she paint on what she see. Then she pick out what she want to have forward in the painting, and catches it on the canvas. Strong bright colors are important to Anne Grete.
However, the best prescription is to paint all the time. As often as you have time. Go to courses and to be inspired by others, gain correction and continue working.