The Artist
One can name many emotions: fear, love, longing. But there are even more feelings without names. My paintings are about both kinds of feelings. I am trying also to paint what one cannot say in words.
I have painted faces and bodies. I have imagined bodies to be landscapes and faces to be unfinished stories. I have concentrated on the glance which in a moment touches the horizon of life. Perhaps when one steps out of a bus; when one feels the wind from the sea; or when sitting in a dusty waiting room.
When painting I lose control of what I am doing. Sometimes it all ends well, but often in a ruined canvas. In general, I try to organise what I am doing in stories like: Faces as Landscapes, Touching the Horizon, Dreams by Daylight, The Four Graces, The Everyday Smile, Blues, and Saudade.
One can name many emotions: fear, love, longing. But there are even more feelings without names. My paintings are about both kinds of feelings. I am trying also to paint what one cannot say in words.
I have painted faces and bodies. I have imagined bodies to be landscapes and faces to be unfinished stories. I have concentrated on the glance which in a moment touches the horizon of life. Perhaps when one steps out of a bus; when one feels the wind from the sea; or when sitting in a dusty waiting room.
When painting I lose control of what I am doing. Sometimes it all ends well, but often in a ruined canvas. In general, I try to organise what I am doing in stories like: Faces as Landscapes, Touching the Horizon, Dreams by Daylight, The Four Graces, The Everyday Smile, Blues, and Saudade.
See my art gallery below and also check my Instagram page @oleskovsmose_art, organised by Renato Marcone, where one can buy paintings and prints of my paintings.
Online Gallery
The Everyday Smile
Some of my paintings tell about the smile that comes from within. When one remembers, when one thinks ahead, when one imagines. I have paid attention to the quiet everyday smiles, not the one that belongs to parties...
Saudade
The word saudade is Portuguese. It means “longing”. It could be a life-shaking longing. Imagine the Portuguese sailors, centuries ago, crossing unknown oceans and getting to Africa, to India, to Brazil. They had no...
Faces as Landscapes
A face is a most fascinating landscape. It includes all kind of colours, lines, and surfaces. It includes lightness and darkness, green and brown, and many hidden places. I like to explore the emotions of...
Blues
I try to create the colour blue with a third dimension. I let the blue grow forward though thin layers of transparent ultramarine, greenish blue, reddish blue, cold blue, and warm blue. I also use transparent layers...
Selected Exhibitions
2023: Gallery Tornby.
2017: Ava Art Festival, Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Centre, Osaka, Japan. Galleria Ars Longa, Helsinki. Portland art, Aalborg. Aalborg i Farver, Aalborg. Kunst i Stenum, Stenum.
2016: Børglum Udstillingen, Børglum. Mero, Rio Claro. Aalborg i Farver, Aalborg. Kunst i Stenum, Stenum. Mundo Interior, Internet Gallery, “Tendências Criativas”, Barão de Juparanã, Rio de Janeiro. ART EXPO, New York. “Creative Moments”, Saphira and Ventura Gallery, New York, LESSEDRA Gallery and Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia.
2015: ”Hverdagssmilet”, Galleri Tornby. Aalborg i Farver, Aalborg. Kunst i Stenum, Stenum.
2014: Biennial of European and Latin American Art, Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. “Art Shopping”, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. “Jogo das artes”, Centro Cultural Light, Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro. MVArte – Mostra Virtual de Arte, Galeria de Arte ANA PIROLO, Internet Gallery. ”De sætter kulør på Nordjylland”, Dronninglund Kunstcenter. ”Aalborg i Farver”, Aalborg. Galleri Zimmerart, Skørping. ”At Mærke Horisonten”, Frederikshavn Rådhus.
2013: ”Længsel, Angst, Kærlighed og Andre Billeder”, Galleri Himmerland. ”Paper Cubed Project”, D. Diogo de Sousa Museum, Braga, Portugal. ”Kunst gi’r liv”: Kunst i påsken, Frederiksberg. “Påskeudstillingen”, Brønderslev Gymnasium. ”Påskeudstillingen”, Galleri Himmerland. Galeria Colorida, Lisbon.
2012: Galleri Zimmerart, Skørping. ”Fra Drømme til dagslys”, Galleri Himmerland. Buderup Ødekirke, Skørping. Galería Krabbe, Malaga, Spain. Biennial of European and Latin American Contemporary Art (BELA), Galeria do Palacio, Porto, Portugal. ”Undslupne øjeblikke”, Kulturkøbmanden, Store Brøndum.
2011: ”Rebild Kunstnere”, Katrineholm Mejeri, Store Brøndum. ”Diálogo”, Brazilian Contemporary Art, AVA Galleria, Helsinki. Gallery Himmerland. ”De sætter kulør på Nordjylland” (”They make North Jutland colourful”), Dronninglund Kunstcenter. “Coffee and Tropical Colours”, Brazilian contemporary art, Poleeni Kulttuurikeskus, Pieksämäki, Finland. ”Art During Easter” (”Kunst i Påsken”), Frederiksberg. Logimatic, Aalborg.
2010: “Touching the Horizon” / “Tocando o Horizonte”, PontoArt, Vila Madalena, São Paulo. ”Blikket på Kunsten”, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg. Gallery Inuit, Aalborg.
1996-2002: ”Project Havnefruen”, (Designing a floating sculpture: A collaborative project together with Ove Bering, Viggo Steincke Bertelsen and Kim Hedemann Jensen).
1995: Almere Stadt, The Netherlands. Easter Exhibition (Påskeudstilling), Gammel Vrå Slot. Easter Exhibition (Påskeudstilling), Støvring Højskole. Kairos, New Art Gallery, Munich.
1993: ”Somewhere in October” (”Et sted i oktober”), Medborgerhuset i Aalborg (combining installations and music: A collaborative project together with Ove Bering, Viggo Steincke Bertelsen and Kim Hedemann Jensen). The Danish Embassy, London, England. The Willows, Oxshott, England. Frederikshavn Art Museum.
1992: Gallery Aalborghallen, Aalborg.
1990: Gallery Marius, Copenhagen (combining paintings and poetry by Maria Giacobbe). Kunstbygningen SAK, Svendborg.
1989: “Noah’s Ark”, Ålborg. Frederikshavn Art Museum.
1988: “Standardrejser”, Ålborg Kunstpavillon (combining paintings and modern music by Knud Riishøjgaard). Gallery Marius, Copenhagen. Frederikshavn Art Museum.
1987: Almere Stadt, The Netherlands. Ålborg Kunstpavillon (combining paintings and poetry by Maria Giacobbe). Kulturhuset i Helsinki, Finland.
1986: Kunsten Lever, Ålborg. Galleri Rampelyset, Silkeborg. Artists’ Easter Exhibition (Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling), Århus (qualifying for membership of The Danish Association of Visual Artists, Billedkunstnernes Forbund). Galleri Ti, Tistrup. Artists’ Summer Exhibition (Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling), Tistrup (qualifying for membership of The Danish Association of Visual Artists, Billedkunstnernes Forbund). Langelands Kunstforening.
1985: Arendal Kunstforening, Norway. Ålborg Kunstpavillon, Aalborg. Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund (together with Bruno Kjær, Thorvald Odgaard og Særker Sørensen). Svendborg Amts Kunstforening, Svendborg. Nerthus’ Easter Exhibition, Aalborg. Artists’ Autumn Exhibition (Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling), Copenhagen (qualifying for membership of The Danish Association of Visual Artists, Billedkunstnernes Forbund). Artists’ Summer Exhibition (Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling), Tistrup (qualifying for membership of The Danish Association of Visual Artists, Billedkunstnernes Forbund). Svendborg Amts Kunstforening, Svendborg. Arendal Kunstforening, Arendal, Norway.
1984: Artists’ Summer Exhibition (Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling), Tistrup (qualifying for membership of The Danish Association of Visual Artists, Billedkunstnernes Forbund). Svendborg Amts Kunstforening, Svendborg. Den Alternative.
1983: Limfjordens Efterårsudstilling. Den Alternative.
1971: Silkeborgudstillingen.
1970: Vendsyssel.
1969: Vendsyssel.
Furthermore, I have made exhibitions in institutions, companies and schools. I have illustrated and made covers to several books. I have participated in many art projects, for instance combing paintings and music.
News
What they say
By Tom Jørgensen
See what the art critique at Jyllands-Posten (a Danish newspaper), and editor of Kunstavisen (the most influential art magazine in Denmark) wrote about Ole’s paintings.
By Laura Ragoczy
See what was published in the Danish art encyclopaedia Weilbach: Dansk Kunsterleksikon (Munksgaard-Roinante) edited by Sys Hartmann, about Ole’s paintings.
