Camilla Fransrud — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Oct 29

Oct 29 Camilla Fransrud

Biography

Born in Oslo in 1974, Camilla Fransrud is a Norwegian contemporary painter. She moved to Trondheim at the age of twenty and has lived here for 29 years. She has three adult children
and family means a lot to her.Ever since childhood, she has had a deep and unique passion for photography, where she is self -taught.
As a seven year old ,she owned her first camera, and she could stand at the beach for hours to capture the perfect moment.She is strongly connected to the ocean, where she today also has her day job.
Trough her love for photographic art ,she also discovered her passion for painting.
She started painting in 2017, and she paints on canvas with acrylic, mixing her own colors.
To create depth in her paintings, she uses chalk, palette knife ,various textures and mixed media.
She is also self-taught in this art form.
What she attempts to evoke in her art is that you can feel the painting the fingertips, sense it, not only look at it.To her the process of painting is just essential as breathing.Let me give you one breath, one moment of poetic stillness she says .Working intuitively with colors, she derives inspiration from the Nordic Light.
She wants to give you a space to dwell in, a place to enjoy and simply be.
To her it is important to paint with the heart ,and her expression is both abstract and figurative.
She derives you to touch your heart via her paintings, so that you can feeling create your own dreams trough the feelings she attempts to convey in her paintings.You do not just capture a picture, you create one.Let us create a beautiful world together ,she says and hopes that you will accompany her on that journey.

Artist Statement

In my art I like to capture the beauty in our imagined world ,and would give the viewer a poetic place to dwell in.I try to capture the light in my pictures to convey a place that is floating magic.The world needs art to bring people together and to give the dreams.

Country Norway

Website www.artbycfransrud.com

Instagram @artbyc_fransrud