About me

My name is Elisabeth Svendby and I am a painter living and working in Oslo, Norway.

My current passion is painting figures and portraits. After a year of sketching people, ending with the December exhibition at Dugg, Oslo, I took to oil paints.

Right now I am working on both commissions and personal work within portraiture.

My materials and painting surfaces are very important to my process. I do extensive sketching with wax pastels to find what I am looking for in the figures. On the canvas I am using thick paint to recreate that dragging feeling of wax pastel on paper. The tactile nature of this is important to me, and helps me feel my way into the subject matter.

I have been creating all my life, but in 2017 I started the transition from working as a designer, into painting full-time. I had been working as a Chief Designer in various media houses, starting in Dagbladet in 2006 and ending in Amedia. However, the desire to go back to the tactile, creative world, where sensitivity is a strength, became so powerful, that there was no way back in the end. Now I am a full time artist, working out of my studio in Oslo, Norway.

If you'd like to visit me and look at paintings, please email me at support@elisabethsvendby.com to arrange a time.

EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS

Solo exhibition 6-8 December 2024 at Dugg, Oslo

Open studio 2024 for Oslo Open

Solo exhibition, 28 Aug - 10 Sep, 2021 at Galleri S9, Oslo

Fall exhibition, October 2019 with Oslo Maleklubb

Kroloftets Jubilee Exhibition, June 2019, Oslo

Open studio 2019, Kroloftet for Oslo Open

Open studio 2018, Kroloftet for Oslo Open