About me

 

Welcome,

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

My current passion is exploring the figure, and how I can portray states of mind and emotions in every day settings honestly. I embrace the imperfections and vulnerability in each of us through sinuous line and intuitive colors.

The mediums I use have been surprisingly important to my process. I do extensive sketching with wax pastels to find what I am looking for in the figures. Then I move to the canvas using thick paint to recreate that dragging feeling of wax pastel on paper. The tactile nature of this is important to me, and I have experimented a lot before getting here. 

I have been creating all my life, but in 2017, I left my design job to focus on painting full-time. I had been working as a chief designer in various media houses, starting in Dagbladet 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.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Open Studio 26 April 2025, for Oslo Open

 

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