VISIT NOW: LAND HO -Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen-Until 15 April
The artistic development of Danish-born (1965) Ina Rosing has been greatly influenced by several years spent in Greenland as a child, and a period in her life when she worked on the deserted and rough eastern Arctic coastline. She explains, “I am always longing for open spaces and the powerful feeling of being connected to the vast pure Arctic nature and to ‘the whole’. This undefined feeling of power and belonging I experience when I paint is, on a more unconscious level, the most important feature of my work.”“. My main concern when I paint is the paint itself.The colour and texture is more important to me than the subject matter.”
Her subjects range from the human body to the buzz and feel of the Big City,and an intensely inner landscape of jealousy, anxiety, anger, lust, love and pleasure – themes which resonate from her vibrant work. Her large paintings are mostly abstract, but with easily recognisable characters, paint, dripping and splashing"