Jón Magnus Joensen

The Faroe Islands are an inexhaustible source of motifs. If you go closer, just a small spot, a place, a village or a town can be just as inexhaustible. The light – and with it the colours – is constantly changing, on the same day and through the seasons.

I work with an expressive visual language in the tension between the familiar and the abstract. I let feelings and the inner life play along, so that I feel freer with the motif.

Mostly I work with painting. But I also work with other media, for example acrylic on paper, oil pastel and watercolour.

The palette is full of colour, and the light plays in many ways.

I started painting in 1976. In 2003 I studied at the art academy in Holbæk, and I have taken part in many smaller art courses.