Working with colours is something I quite recently started with. I’ve sketched and painted since I was very young, but almost only in pencils and black ink – colouring a piece on paper has never really gotten to me. Canvas is another matter. Since we moved to a house last year, painting on canvas is a new hobby of mine!

Acrylics only. I don’t work in oil at all. Partly because I find it too long to dry, and the smell is not very pleasing either.

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I love reading popular science cause it is a wonderful fun way to learn otherwise complicated, stale (and boring) subjects. Because don’t tell me that Math and Physics in a school bench does not make you quiver. It is no coincidence that my habit of heavy coffee drinking started in order to keep me awake in electronics class. Popular science however, is really interesting and fun – and even ”novels” pertruding on these subjects I find truly inspirational.

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For my last two paintings came to be because of books on Math. Particularly one I read last year: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa. It is a story of a professor trapped in 8 minutes of short-term memory and his new housekeeper and her son. This story is beautiful and sad at the same time. The professor makes all kinds of mathematical discoveries in a world where the present moment is key. I truly recommend this book to anyone!

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The professor in this book, at one time, tells of triangular numbers – and how their geometrical pattern of triangular forms are both elegant and simple. Which gave the idea for this painting of three:

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It is truly just another coincidence – that the painting of triangular numbers were done on 3 canvases. My fiance loves it though, and it soon hangs in his study.

My second painting, that I finished this weekend, came from the thought of Pi. Pi, a ”magical” number of infinite size, has always intrigued science. As far back as the ancient Egyptians, an approximation of Pi was used. But this piece, came to my mind after reading an article online about a woman redoing her kitchen tiles. Instead of tiles though, I saw a skyline in the sunset… made up of decimals of Pi. Over 100 of them.

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