Seven pages from Stockholm, and what is coming this November
SANITA BALODE
ELVENE
These weeks I spend most of my time in the studio with Elvene,
a new series of large paintings about the rivers here in Voss.
The rivers change fast when the rain comes, and I am trying to hold that speed in colour. It is slow work, and I love it.
365
In between, I go back to my small pages from 365.
This is the series I paint when I travel. I carry a little set of paper and colours, and wherever I am, I paint at least one sheet a day.
Each page is finished the same day and never corrected afterwards.
Some pages come from my parents' home in Latvia. Others come from Stockholm, where I stayed with a dear friend.
SEVEN PAGES FROM STOCKHOLM
On 9 November I put a selection of the Stockholm pages in my shop for one week. Seven pages, each of them one day in a city I only visited.
Each page is an original on A4 paper with a 30 x 40 cm mount that fits a standard frame. 1 400 NOK, and each page exists only once.
The shop opens on Monday 9 November at 09:00 and closes on Sunday 15 November at 20:00.
People on my email list see the pages the evening before, on Sunday 8 November at 20:00, with 10 % off.
You can join here: https://www.sanitabalode.art/newsletter
MEET ME IN BERGEN
On Sunday 22 November I have my own stand at Bergen Kunstmarked,
Thon Senter Bergen, from 12:00 to 18:00.
I bring paintings from Elvene, pages from 365 and works from While It Lasts.
OPEN DAY IN VOSS
On Saturday 28 November
I open the doors at Kulturverkstaden Magasinet, Magasinvegen 14, 5700 Voss,
from 11:00 to 16:00.
Come and see the paintings up close, in daylight, with a cup of something warm.
All I Want was painted in 2025, the year I came back from a serious illness.
It reminded me, very clearly, that life does not last forever.
After that, I gave much more of my time back to painting.
This is the painting that marks that turn, and it is now in my shop.
All I Want (Alt eg vil), oil on linen, 100 x 70 cm
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