ABOUT ARILD ASKELAND
"It is not uncommon for those who have had a career in creative graphic arts to pursue an artist career afterwards. I have been making paintings with and without frames, long as a sidewalk for my professional career. I experienced my work as being in a tension between architecture, sculpture and visual arts."
In his Norwegian studio, the international artist Arild Askeland creates a complex interplay of shapes, colors, light, texture and structure that dances along the surface of his abstract expressionist images. Far from being simple studies of, or homage to, these elements, he expresses a wonderful complexity in his compositions (of gardens, abstract and geometric forms), made intelligible by a united language of line and color. His works invite the eye into the depths with subtle transparency.
