Aase Birkhaug | LONDON ART BIENNALE

Artwork Title:

Princesse of Roses

Artwork Media:

Tempera on Canvas

Artist Website:

http://www.aasebirkhaugart.com

Nation of origin:

Norway

Biography

Painter & physical therapist - Aase Birkhaug

Believing that surroundings can influence one` s health and mind, Painter and Physiotherapist Aase Birkhaug has combined her two passions by painting roses for a soothing effect.

Having fallen in love with flowers, nature and painting from early age, it was only natural to merge these factors together at some point, and by combining the aesthetic beauty of botany with her skills as a painter.

It is documented that colors have an effect on the sensory system, and some years ago I made the waiting room in my physiotherapy office into an exhibition for my paintings, so I discovered that it influenced the patients mental state.

My paintings are regularly described as very soft and mild. The color combinations I use are tastefully and delicately fused to make a motif that can be described as very soothing to the eye.

I discovered several years ago that Roses have a positive effect on me, almost like healing, and the combination of the smell and the sight feels like a meditation, bringing about a certain calmness, this is something I try to reflect in my paintings.

I do my paintings in different media – Aquarelle – Tempera – Gouache – Oil – Acrylics and Pastel.

I have been drawing and painting since I was 6 years old.

I have had exhibitions both in Norway and several country s abroad during the years 1990 – 2019. Approximately 70 international art exhibitions in 2016 - 2019.

Since march 2016 I have received 70 international art awards and art prizes.

There are also a very long list of publications as articles and books about my art published internationally the last three years as well in, Art Monaco, Canada, Italy, London England UK, Germany, France, Middle East, Denmark, USA, New York, Miami ,Los Angeles, Philippines, Dubai, Argentina and Norway.

In my family we have several painters who have inspired my art work and inspired with painting and the paintings I have painted during the years of my painting career.

To mention some names in my art family- painter Anna Sofie Brunchorst Ibsen, the famous poet Henrik Ibsen, painter Harald Ibsen ,painter Borghild Ibsen and prof dr med Conrad Birkhaug.

I have attended art and painting classes during the years from I was 13 years old until this anno 2019.

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The Royal Norwegian Embassy posted aboutme and my paintings at their Norwegian Arts page on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Norwegian_Arts/status/1131877668939546625

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Aase Birkhaug

The Healing Rose

With the organic remedies of the natural world at the heart of her works, Aase Birkhaug specialises

in drawing and painting magnificent roses as the virtuous reticence of nature continuously

provides her with a wealth of creative and spiritual inspiration. The wonderfully skilled rose painter

from Bergen, Norway applies a wide variety of mediums to her canvases ranging from oil,

watercolour, acrylic and tempera and has been exhibiting around the world her breathtaking still life paintings that possess the unequivocal ability to transform any

setting into a surrounding that is saturated with an abundance of tranquility, which has lead to Birkhaug’s acquisition of many

international awards..

Birkhaug has a true affinity with the organic world and invokes through each of her pieces the

belief that roses and their vibrant hues have a healing power that can contribute to our well being

and state of mind. Subtly integrating shades of pink that cascade into blushing reds fill Birkhaug’s

audience with a joyfully calm sense as her delightful compositions emanate a cerebrally engaging

positive aura. Birkhaug’s compositional elements present an academic understanding of nature’s

ornate nuances, reflective of Frederick Judd Waugh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s graceful

exploration of flowers. Birkhaug’s art has the intent and intrinsic capability of ameliorating the

spectator, whilst simultaneously radiating the most extreme and captivating beauty; her expressive

creations are so sophisticatedly absolute in their execution that the observer can almost sense the

sweet scent of the flora, which enables them to transcend their surroundings and enter a personal

place in their mind full of serenity.

Aase Birkhaug’s passion for painting flowers conjures similarities to the work of Georgia O'Keeffe

as both artists remarkably succeed in conveying the impeccable detail of each petal in their floral

compositions. Birkhaug attentively examines the flower in every aspect and captures the various

perspectives of the subject by exhibiting the uniqueness of every rose; the characteristics of each of

its petals are fully explored which allows the viewer to wholly appreciate and absorb the individual

delicate components of the blossoming flora. Birkhaug has the unique ability to stimulate the

observer to view the roses that she depicts with a fresh perspective. Indeed, her flawless technique

and exquisite brushwork evoke great emotion in anyone who experiences her extraordinary

creations, as a peaceful wave of energy washes over the spectator as they gaze upon these glorious

artworks.

It is possible to detect the influence of Vincent Van Gogh in Birkhaug’s works as their floral

paintings share an expressive process in which shapes and forms are soft and full of movement

whilst possessing a vigorous use of colour. Their diaphanous and mild portrayals are pleasing to

they eye and emit a soothing energy to their environment, whilst displaying an erudite synergy with

the Impressionists.

Roses symbolise passion, purity and beauty, all of which are elements that Birkhaug tastefully and

eloquently conveys through her artwork by communicating to the viewer in a language that

transmits universal human emotions. Birkhaug intelligently connects those observing her art

through a mutual sensation that mirrors the romantic connection between man and nature.

Timothy Warrington

International Confederation of Art Critics

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TV intervju about Art Health Nature ( Roses ) The Rose Garden 13.10.2018 25 minutes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDur0tKh_No&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3bRwF8ooSOAwXFlQkfkK2h0U2vvxzndkPlQfXH4amYRaXDc-gdh5GLsXY

My book “THE ROSE GARDEN” published march 2018 in London UK & Musei di Chianciano : https://issuu.com/museodarte/docs/aasebirkhaug-therosegarden

My Book Artistic Visions published june 2017 in New York : https://issuu.com/amsterdamwhitneygallery/docs/artistic_visions_of_aase_birkhaug_i

PRESENTED IN MAD S GALLERY MILANO April 2019: https://issuu.com/madsmilano/docs/leonardo__the_tribute__le_opere

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CREATIVE PAPER 2018 DEC INTERVIEW :

ROSES - FLORALS - FLOWERS

Love them or hate them there's no denying the sheer popularity of roses, with a family of over three hundred species and thousands of other cultivars there are a vast array of these fragrant beauties around the globe. Artist Aase Birkhaug takes her passion for roses seriously. When you are known as the 'Queen of Roses and Mother of Roses', by art critics, you know you are doing something right. She also published a book this year titled "The Rose Garden" and has participated at about 70 international Art Biennales and International Art Exhibitions in the last two years. In our interview with her, we talk so Aase about her fascination with roses, her family of accomplished painters and finding inspiration in the art world.

What is it about roses that draws you to them time and again?

I am drawn to them again and again because they are very beautiful, they smell good they look good all of them has their own history, and they represent different things in a historical-philosophical perspective. I am drawn to them because they mostly represent love. Roses are nature and roses are a beautiful part of nature. I am told that there are about 50000 different Roses in the world may be more spices. As a physical therapist and a painter I have been drawn to them, The Roses in many years now all back to the year 1990. That was the year I started painting Roses.

Because of the symbolism, the Roses represent I feel that Roses are the most universal flowers in the world, they are like Queens and Princesses in the Universe, in The Paradise.

By the way, I was born and grew up in a place called Paradis in Bergen, Norway,

You come from a family of painters, could you tell us a bit about them and the effect they had on you growing up?

My grandfather, my mother's father was a painter my aunt was a painter, my grandfather's cousin was a painter she had the painting school here in Bergen where I live early in the 1900 s.

My father's uncle was a painter, sculpturer and a doctor, a professor in medicine well known and very good reputation internationally

Henrik Ibsen – the famous Poet – Cousin of Anna Sophie Brunkenhorst Ibsen.

All of them have stimulated me inspired me and shown me the way to painting and to work with painting as a part of my life. My aunt, my mother's sister, introduced me to a painting club or painting association when I was 13 years old. I was the youngest member there, and the oldest member was 93 y old.

Grandfather – Harald Ibsen – painter

Aunt – Borghild Ibsen – painter

Grandfathers Cousin – Anna Sophie Brunkenhorst Ibsen – painter – Painting School in Bergen Norway

Prof Dr med Konrad Birkhaug international scientist doctor – Painter

Henrik Ibsen – Poet internationally known.- famous

In my family, I was gifted with painting or doing art. I think I have inherited it from my ancestors.

Other family members are gifted with poetic gifts inherited from our ancestors.

Do you think people are not as aware as they should be about the impact of color on our moods and wellbeing?

Yes, I think that is right, they are not aware of the impact of colours, neither aware of the natures impact on moods and wellbeing. Several studies conclude that colors have an impact and also the environments where we live have an effect on us.

Houses, gardens, hospitals, environments and clothes.

Colors also have different meanings in a historical, philosophical context.

Color, as a means of expression, has been part of human history since handprints were first painted on cave walls. But to make the shades they had imagined, people had to unearth pigments and dyes often hidden deep within plants, minerals, molluscs, insects, and other natural elements. They developed complicated, dangerous, and sometimes even revolting techniques to achieve deep reds, bright yellows, and the most beautiful blues.

Archaeologist and ethnologist Anne Varichon takes the reader on a fascinating journey that examines not only the variety and use of natural colours and how to reproduce them today but also their symbolism and mythology. From Confucian China to medieval Europe, from the Papuans to the Inuit, she travels across the centuries and around the world in this absorbing, and often surprising, cultural history of the sources and meanings of colour.

How do you balance being a physiotherapist and an artist, especially when it comes to exhibiting your work around the globe?

I work as a physical therapist in my own clinic in Bergen where I live every day during the week.

I paint in the afternoons, the evenings, the weekends and in my vacations.

To paint you need to be structured and have the right mood and feelings, so it is fine to have other things to accompany the painting.

The Roses, The Rose Garden in The Arboretum, The Botanical Garden inspires me every day during the year to new Rose Paintings.

I photograph them, and later on, I paint them.

It is a kind of logistic to send paintings to international Biennales, Exhibitions and prepare for events that I have been selected to.

What aspects of the art world inspire you?

All that is beautiful, painters with talent, masters

Mostly Nature,flowers and not forgetting my addicted to roses.

Also the old masters,

History, Art history

How do you balance aesthetics and meaning in your work?

For me it is straightforward – I paint Roses – they represent aesthetics and also meaning in my work.

Roses are nature and aesthetics.

Nature is healing.

Roses and florals are healing.

And they are both aesthetic components in the world and my work.

Do you still get nervous every time you exhibit your work?

I do occasionally; It depends on the exhibition and how I feel I have managed to prepare and fulfil the task before the exhibition.

I have received 67 international Art Prizes and Art Awards since March 2016, so I have built up a kind of self -confidence during this two year period but of course if I get new challenges out of my comfort zone I will get a bit nervous.

What is Aase’s idea of a perfect day?

Aase s idea of a perfect day is walking in The Botanical Garden at Milde in Bergen, The Arboretum, The Rosariet, where the ROSES grow. The largest Rose Garden in Norway. Where my book THE ROSE GARDEN both was inspired to become a book and also daily walks since 1990 until 2018 every new day after work as a physio gives me new motives, new inspiration and new Rose Paintings.

Also being at my cottage which is next to the Botanical Garden gives me a lot of inspiration and nature , flowers, florals and ROSES which is the energy that make me paint : )

My book THE ROSE GARDEN : https://issuu.com/museodarte/docs/aasebirkhaug-therosegarden

My book ARTISTIC VISIONS OF AASE BIRKHAUG : https://issuu.com/amsterdamwhitneygallery/docs/artistic_visions_of_aase_birkhaug_i

Presented in Creative Paper ISSUE Magazine published december 2018.

Erin Stobie an intewrview - Nurturing with Nature OUTLOOK MAGAZINE 2017 : http://outletmag.co/nurturing-nature-interview-aase-birkhaug/

Article in ART MONACO MAGAZINE 2016 : http://artmonacomagazine.com/aase-birkhaug/

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in the international Art Market I am called "QUEEN OF ROSES" ,"The Norwegian Ambassadeur of Roses, Flowers and Nature" and "Mother of Roses".

I have been asked several times during the recent years from people looking at my paintings, how do you do it, how do you paint, do you teach, do you have seminars and can you teach me so that I can be a better painter.

I do not teach or have painting classes at the time being may be I will do it in the future.

Here is one person who contacted me lately:

Aase as you know I have been following your work, I absolutely love it. I have a question do you teach or hold seminars? Do you have a book or notes regarding how you paint, your approach, your techniques, materials etc

I will continue to observe and love your work hopefully through that I will get to where I want to be.

I answered him that I do not teach at the moment and do not have seminars either but may be I will in the future.

As you have seen from my paintings in the book “ The Rose Garden “ you will notice that I have many paintings and in different techniques, materials and expressions.

Where I feel most “ at home “ is when I paint semiabstract paintings where some of the details in the painting is diffuse and other details in the painting is more clear.

This is where I want to be in the semiabstract field of painting also together with good colors that give a feeling of joy.

The meaning of the colors and the impact that the colors give in a painting is very essential for how the painting will appear

Aase Birkhaug

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF ART CRITIS - THE ROSE GARDEN - ART CRITICS

The Artist

Believing that surroundings can influence one’s health and mind, the painter and physiotherapist Aase Birkhaug has combined her two passions by reproducing Roses for a soothing effect.

The Norwegian painter Aase Birkhaug fell in love with flowers, nature, and the Universe when she was a child, since the age of six. She began to study art and attended art courses when she was thirteen and from that moment she is in a continuous artistic evolution.

During her creative journey, she naturally merged the three factors that have always defined her life: the care of her patients’ mental state, the profound fascination towards the aesthetic beauty of botany and her innate artistic inclinations and skills. In fact, as a professional physiotherapist with the knowledge that the colours have an effect on the sensory system, Aase Birkhaug transformed the waiting room of her physiotherapy office into an art exhibition made of her creations, and she detected an influence on the patient's mental state.

This beneficial effect is perceived by the artist firsthand: “I discovered several years ago that Roses have a positive effect on me, almost like healing, and the combination of the smell and the sight feels like a meditation, bringing about a certain calmness.. this is something I try to reflect in my paintings.”

Aase Birkhaug’s family roots testimony a generation of creative souls that inspired her artistic pathway: from Anna Sofie Brunchorst Ibsen, who run the painting school in Bergen (Norway) in the early ‘1900, to the famous poet Henrik Ibsen, passing through her grandfather Harald Ibsen and her aunt Borghild Ibsen.

Aase Birkhaug is today an established artist who exhibits in prestigious exhibitions all over the world, such as the London Art Biennale and the Florence Biennale. Her art can be viewed in many art books and collections in Europe and she received numerous awards.

‘Floral Fantasies’ - Christopher Rosewood, International Confederation of Art Critics

Aase Birkhaug is an extremely talented artist who reinterprets, analyses and gives new life to the exquisite and time-honoured artistic genre of floral still-life. This expressive Norwegian artist has reconnected to the Romantic style, communicating a finesse lost to digital imaging. Birkhaug gracefully combines the magnificence of tradition and the impetus of modernity, infusing her blooming compositions with eloquent insertions of modern taste.

Returning to classical inanimate depictions, Birkhaug not only shows that a reactionist approach can enhance an established artistic canon and invigorate our understanding of human psyche, but also electrifies a fascinating subject that nowadays has been often put aside and misunderstood. Thus, due to a profound understanding of the mind, Birkhaug has the ability to give new life to an apparently unchangeable genre, postulating that humans are eager to be surrounded by absolute and pure beauty, and thus pervading the spectator’s eye with whirlwinds of vibrant and unspoiled blossoms, preeminently roses.

Throughout the History of Art, the rose has always had an allegorical tradition of an almost unparalleled power. Symbol of charm, passion, eternal promise, but also of time passing, vulnerability and even death. The rose represents all the divergent and mysterious shades of human mortality and is one of the most sensual creations of Mother Nature, a flower with a thousand facets and nuances. An absolute oxymoron lives underneath its blossoms: delicacy and mystery, softness and provocative references are disguised among its gentle petals. Velvety buds and dangerous spines intertwine in a maze of double entendres, stimulating our perception in an endless interpretative journey. Birkhaug’s petals create a vortex that captures the observer who is bewitched and fascinated by the proportionate recurrence of the concentric fragrant layers which compose each rose.

She can be hailed as the modern Bosschaert, master of the Dutch Golden Age, due to her immense talent in expressively painting gentle flowers and simultaneously conveying transcendent emotion. While Bosschaert predominantly arranged his blossoms symmetrically, developing a hyper-realistic and nearly scientific approach to painting petals, Birkhaug focuses on the symbolic power of nature by conveying its sentimental perspective and creating an eruption of compelling pigments. Thus, old fashioned bouquet compositions are transformed into vivid and nearly abstract atmospheres saturated with dancing forms and musical vibrations. Birkhaug’s works are deeply exuberant in their rhapsodic naturalness - a general sense of transcendence prevails in some smooth reproductions of flowers, while in some others a passionate corporeality and a unequivocal link between the artist’s inner self and the all-embracing primordial nature, can be sensed.

From a philosophical perspective, the divine balance of Birkhaug’s flowers combined with the irregularities of unique shades of colour, create overcoming compositions that evoke the German philosopher Georg Hegel’s concept of Thesis and Antithesis. In fact, Birkhaug’s innate predilection and inclination for the wonders concealed in a flower garden inflame unexpected juxtapositions, while the observer’s emotional reaction becomes the metaphorical Synthesis that harmonizes and goes beyond the previous phases, leading to the truth. Thus, when the viewer shapes a unique and personal interpretation of Birkhaug’s intricate depictions, a new shared reality is born, solving and reconciling their peculiar discernments of the natural universe, forming a new shared awareness.

Birkhaug deliberately abandons the mannerism of the scientific reproduction of flowers born in Flemish Baroque paintings and demonstrates references from Impressionist artists. In fact, each artwork is determined by a unique perspective of the light that delicately touches the rosebush, and even the smaller bud acquires the mystical aura of a celestial creature. Birkhaug conveys an effect of spontaneity and effortlessness that masks her carefully constructed compositions, using exquisite, condensed brushstrokes of pure unblended colors that barely reveal form. Rejecting the classical research of an ideal of beauty and an eternal essence of reality, Birkhaug follows Claude Monet’s footsteps, assuming that the authentic vision and perception of the subjects portrayed is preponderant compared to any learned conventional theory. Thus, each wonderful flower garden appears contingent on the conditions under which the same rose can be investigated and, above all, influenced by the emotional temperament of the painter herself.

Season after season the blossoms give a different rainbow, in a limitless colour spectrum that ranges from the most sensual red to the delicate innocence of pale pink. Birkhaug becomes the indisputable “Mother of Roses”, a creative soul that is entirely captured by the alluring beauty of these flowers and, at the same time, that is able to make the viewers experience an equal astonishment, enchanting them with her beautiful bouquets. Deeply analysing and understanding the mysterious meanings secluded in these apparently simple botanic organisms, Birkhaug saturates each composition with her passion and dedication towards nature, becoming “emissary” of empathy.

Birkhaug welcomes the secret language of flowers, an alphabet that she can entirely interpret and unfold, in the attempt to make the viewers partakers of the delicate words whispered by flowers. She then goes beyond the boundaries of an easy imitation of reality, admitting her limits in front of the fierce power of Nature and leaving an air of mystery in her compositions. Birkhaug’s work truly emits genius and an intensity that can be felt even without a deep examination of Art History. She is perfectly aware of the past glories and at the same time she has a profound sympathy towards contemporary artistic developments. Hence, she becomes an inspiration for our generation, both for her artistic talent, and gentle educational impulse.

‘Poetic Petals’ - Timothy Warrington, International Confederation of Art Critics

‘Nature’s Call’ - Christopher Rosewood, International Confederation of Art Critics

Nature can be said to be the most perfect and the most pure form of art. As people, we are conditioned by nature, we thrive experiencing its beauty and we are given life through its love and its mysterious energy. Birkhaug is an artist who not only captures the essence of nature - she your captures its soul through delicate use of shape, form and colour.

This artist finds freedom through the depiction of petals and the subject-matter itself reflects on the spiritual and substantive depth of vision possessed by this artist who is able to transform a natural element into a force for good and change. Only a delicate heart and reflective human being with experience of the mind’s inner balance and elevated empathy could be capable of such a deep understanding of beauty.

In the late 1800s the Pre-Raphaelites utilised floral scenes to accentuate the aesthetic appeal of female portraits and figures whereas Birkhaug dedicates her art to the investigation and analyses of every aspect related to God's most beautiful creation, the flower. She seems to be on a philosophical journey of discovery into what exactly makes a petal beautiful.

The link between art and psychology has taken many identities throughout history and is always intrinsically interlinked and dependent on one another. Aase Birkhaug presents an innovative approach to art as a tool to influence the mind on the most subconscious of levels, rather than art as a product of the mind. There is no provocation, no strong choice of subject matter, no easy route to create a dramatic effect. Rather, this artist chooses the most subtle route to engage our inner thoughts and the deep areas of our instinctive subconscious.

Aase Birkhaug has the rare ability to stimulates our thoughts and inclines us to question the beauty that surrounds us. Why are the fallen leaves under a tree in Autumn so perfect? Why is it virtually impossible to improve the aesthetic balance of a random tree? In fact, there is no pursuable finite path to understanding or reaching concrete conclusions but Aase Birkhaug dedicates her explosive albeit refined creative energy to exploring and investigating.

Artwork Analysis - Karen Lappon, International Confederation of Art Critics

I chose this watercolour in particular because I feel it withholds, in it’s small but expressive being, the whole concept of Birkhaug’s essence and creativity.

It is a marvellous composition. The subject stands out in the centre of the paper surrounded by a varied foliage. Aase manages to use the grain of the paper to enhance the different nuances of the watercolour making it an extremely articulated piece of art.

The brushwork is careful to detail whilst maintaining the typical characteristics of a watercolour. The different tones of red create a dynamic and fresh effect, giving the rose a multi-sensory quality that amazingly evokes its intense fragrance while the remainder of the composition is filled with a polychromatic array of leaves. The green tones are so well balanced and heterogeneous, creating depth, movement, and a soupçon of mystery and allure. Leaves rustled by the wind, that capture the light of the sun and reflect the different shades of brilliance and umbrage, giving us the extraordinary tactile and vivid sensation of actually being immersed in nature.

Aase Birkhaug’s taste for painting is expressed in all its glory. She is undoubtedly a marvellous painter that manages to create her compositions in a unique manner. The more one looks at this art work, the more it draws you into its unfathomable depths. The details of the leaves and the blossoms capture our attention after having metabolised the first overwhelming impact of the composition, in its entirety, through our eyes and our senses. Innuendos of faded reds that infer a wider dimension around the main flower, a bush of roses that even our fantasy willingly expands, discovering a magical dimension full of airy freshness and light hearted freedom.

An ancient pleasure for familiar images pervades our spirit when enjoying this beautiful painting. Our senses are rejuvenated and renewed with an energy that only the capable hands of this artist manages to bestow upon us. A true nature lover with a rare and exquisite talent for painting.

AASE BIRKHAUG

In the palette of Aase Birkhaug there is an intense and deep love typical of an artist who through her original technique manages to immortalize the soul of things. Aase's favorite subjects are flowers, especially roses. An enchanting fragrance that emanates every one of its creations, absolutely worth trying and living. In his fantastic creations, there is a chromatic accord that ranges from red, to pink, from green to yellow, in a visual symphony of well-shaded and amalgamated colors. Well balanced and radiant with light compositions. The author - painter, famous worldwide for her subjects, gives life to every flower she portrays, and makes it almost a living and livable person.

Dr. Alessandro Costanza, art historian

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We often search for the answers to our questions and believe the complicated answer to be the solution of the complicated question. It is not always that way, if we use the words of the English Association of Healers: Healing is gentle, simple and effective.

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Art Critic:

Aase Birkhaug

QUEEN OF ROSES

The painting of Aase Birkhaug transports the observer in a new Heaven. Color is declined in its most delicate shape. The cromia is soft and at the same time it transmits at the bystender a feeling of relaxation. I want to define Aase as the true Queen of roses. She paints this flower through the purity of colors and the elegance of the form. With her painting, she takes us to Eden, in that garden where all of us can pick the most beautiful flowers.

Soffused visual colors legitimately invade the canvas. Aase Birkhaug takes us into a new dimension of the dream. A dream that has its creative essence in the artist’s magical brush strokes. The artist is one of the true interpreters of romantic pictorial hyperrealism. Her painting doesn’t just follow the academic rules, but takes inspiration from visual poetry, leaving the spectator in charge of emotion. Her painting is the representation of the real. Each brush stroke is actually an open window on the world. She decides to capture the most beautiful shades; real Heaven on earth. The observer, who sees her works, abandons to them and let them bring him to a world completely dominated by beauty and peace.

Aase is a painter free from external conditioning. Free from paradoxes of sign, paradoxes often used by artists who cannot express real emotions. She is a painter whose philosophy is based on sweetness and eternal beauty that will save us from distruction.

Light explosions characterize a visual path that has its interpretation in the concept of research. Birkhaug is an artist able to create her own alphabet. An alphabet whose language lies in the artist’s gesture, that introducing her emotions of light. Recreating light is not easy, and Aase always portraits it with high carefullness. The painter relies on color to express her moods, emotions picked in remote corners of earth, to gather thoughts of a contemporary world that is changing fast. The light rips the darkness and lightens the narrated. A narrate that explores the human mind and testifies its most intimate thoughts.

Chromatic thoughts with a strong emotional impact. A painting that starts from the heart of the artist and gets to the soul of who’s standing in front of her beautiful visual representations.

Dr. Salvatore Russo

Norwegian artist Aase Birkhaug skillfully combines her knowledge for the healing abilities of roses, and her vibrant color palette to create intentional art for her clients. Birkhaug finds inspiration the aesthetic beauty of roses where she blends Asian and European influences into a substantial and highly-detailed form. The rich textures and soothing strokes are due to her choice of mixed media using aquarelle, tempera, gouache, oil, acrylics, and pastels. Her background in psychotherapy and her love for nature motivates her paintings which seek to promote mindfulness and boost the soothing effects of meditation. With a keen sensitivity to light, she highlights the mysteries hidden within the flowers, masterfully capturing the convergence of shadows, gesture, lines, and texture to come up with genuinely emotive works.

"We often search for the answers to our questions and believe the complicated answer to be the solution of the complicated question. It is not always that way if we use the words of the English Association of Healers: Healing is gentle, simple and effective."

Birkhaug often turns to warm colors with the soothing essence of a welcoming sunny day. Her work is the result of her continuous research and practices into what affects nature has on a person's mental structure throughout the process of self-recovery and discovery.

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FEBRUARY 2019

ART CRITICS AWARD 2019

As Vasilij Kandinskij used to say, «the colour is a power which directly influences the soul»: in fact, colors have always interacted with the sphere of human emotions, they speak about us and with us, influencing our psyche and our moods with their tones.

The artist Aase Birkhaug is willing to evoke the world of emotions through her works.

Aase, painter and physiotherapist, she has combined her two great passions by painting many roses with soft colors and delicate shapes for an effect that she defines as calming: «a motif that can be described as very relaxing for the eyes».

This is what emerges in one of her many paintings, "Rose Louis Zavier & Auguste Miellez", executed in watercolor and tempera on paper, which brush strokes bring to mind the works of the Impressionist period.

The main subject of the work is a large red rose that, from the highness of its beauty and suspended in a timeless dimension, reflects all its grace in an explosion of warm colors. A chromatic range that, in shades of red and pink, shines with brilliance and gets highlighted by the light - perhaps the first rays of the morning - which makes the atmosphere fresh and bright.

The vibrant and short brush strokes create a general sense of immediacy, through which «the Real imposes itself as a vision formed by an almost indistinct tone, swarming in life [and] color». The «fragmentary nature of touch», in fact, not only makes more intense the relationships between colors, but seems to give shape to the flowers themselves which almost get a material concreteness: that is what makes seeming possible to touch the rose and perceiving its perfume. Next the flower there are other two roses, smaller in size but of equal beauty, that together with the central rose are highlighted by an intense light vibration produced by the contrast with the background of the painting: the latter gradually passes from shades of yellow and orange to those of the green, violet and pink present at the bottom of our right that, in their juxtaposition and their overlap, almost seem to reveal the great floral variety of nature.

The consequent «compositional sweetness» gives to the artist's soul and to the observers a feeling of carefree serenity and overwhelming joy that for a moment makes us willing to immerse ourselves in the painting and escape from the “hectic” reality that surrounds us.

The same sensation of tranquility is emanated from the painting entitled "Autumn Roses II": the only protagonist is a rose filled with the delicacy of the clear shades of pink, white and golden yellow.

The long and nuanced brush strokes that define the flower, giving it volume and the absence of contours, tend to create an evocative image of the rose. As a result, the latter is immersed in a sort of unique dimension, exposed to a "slow temporality" that traps the culmination of its majestic grace and its noble beauty. The resulting perception is of profound tranquility, a calm that emanates as a perfume from the clarity of the petals' tints, whose shades act directly on our senses and on our mood.

At the same time the background, mainly made of dark greens combined with white and yellow strokes, suggests a less "relaxing" sensation, perhaps representing the speed with which, sometimes, human emotions vary. A sensation that, however, at the same speed, is concealed thanks to the compositional and chromatic play proposed by the artist: our eye is in fact attracted by the golden, pink and fuchsia shades of the center of the painting, as well as the heart of the rose itself , and consequently in an instant we find ourselves reclaiming the delicate serenity released by the elegant flower.

One last painting that allowed our artist to transform her two great passions into an instrument that could give expression to emotions and perceptions is "Abstract Autumn Roses". The painting, executed in tempera, represents a rose that, in contrary to the two previous works, tends towards abstraction. Far from that principle of verisimilitude, the rose is modeled through the overlapping of the wide brush strokes that guide the observer's gaze inside the painting, and through the soft colors that characterize the works of our artist and that, once again, emanate all their "emotional range": the cyclamen, sometimes reflected in its pink and white hues, sometimes combined with orange and yellow emerges in all its liveliness, enhanced by the dark colors of the background. It is a painting that, thanks to the extraordinary artistic creativity of Aase, has combined the harmonic and silent beauty of nature with the power of colors, becoming the guardian of the most peaceful emotions of the human being: as claimed by the protagonist Renée in the book "Elegance of the hedgehog": «[Art] gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible and, in doing so, places a seal of eternity upon them: a seal representing all those works that, thanks to a particular form, have incarnated the universal nature of human emotions».

Chiara Valaguzza Art Curator

AASE BIRKHAUG

Heavenly roses a rendezvous

Simbolo di amore, devozione, ammirazione, bellezza e perfezione, ma anche simbolo del segreto e del suo svelarsi con delicatezza: tutto questo è la rosa, un fiore unico che ha il potere di descrivere con i suoi diversi colori i sentimenti di chi la regala.

L’artista norvegese Aase Birkhaug ha dedicato tutta la sua arte a questo fiore stupendo e pieno di significati.

Ciò che ci circonda influenza inevitabilmente la salute e la mente di ognuno e i fiori sono un antidoto assicurato per ritrovare la calma e la serenità. Anche i colori hanno un effetto benefico sui nostri sensi e il nostro umore, specialmente il rosa che ha la capacità di alleggerire la mente e di fugare pensieri negativi che vi si possono annidare.

Aase fonde così questo fiore e questo colore dalle virtù così uniche creando un’opera davvero molto delicata, intitolata “Heavenly roses a rendezvous”: una distesa di rose rosa illuminate e giustamente impreziosite da dettagli dorati.

Alcune delle rappresentazioni più belle e più realistiche dei fiori ce le ha lasciati Leonardo da Vinci, perché un angolo della Toscana, che fino a poco tempo fa non molto conosciuto dal punto di naturalistico, il Montalbano, fu proprio il luogo che diede i natali al grande maestro, che raffigurò quel paesaggio e la sua flora in molte tavole e disegni, in cui ritraeva le piante dal vero con una cura dei dettagli da vero 'botanico'.

Una natura così bella e incontaminata non poteva che far fiorire in Leonardo un amore spassionato nei suoi confronti fin da bambino, quello stesso amore, soprattutto per i fiori, che è innato anche in Aase e che lo coltiva fin da piccolina.

HEAVENLY RSES a RENDEZVOUS - ART CRITIC BY SILVIA GRASSI - Art critics in Milano at MAD s GALLERY MILANO , MILANO iTALY

Symbol of love, devotion, admiration, beauty and perfection, but also a symbol of secrecy and its subtle disclosure: all this is the rose, a unique flower that has the power to describe the feelings of those who give it with its different colors.

The Norwegian artist Aase Birkhaug has dedicated all her art to this beautiful and meaningful flower.

What surrounds us inevitably influences the health and mind of everyone and the flowers are an assured antidote to find calm and serenity. Even the colors have a beneficial effect on our senses and our mood, especially the pink that has the ability to lighten the mind and dispel negative thoughts that can lurk there.

Aase blends this flower and this color with so unique virtues, creating a very delicate work, entitled "Heavenly roses a rendezvous": an expanse of pink roses illuminated and rightly embellished with golden details.

Some of the most beautiful and most realistic representations of flowers have been left to us by Leonardo da Vinci, because a corner of Tuscany, which until recently not very well known from the naturalistic point of view, the Montalbano, was precisely the place that gave birth to the great master, who depicted that landscape and its flora in many tables and drawings, in which he depicted plants from life with an attention to detail as a true 'botanist'.

Such a beautiful and uncontaminated nature could only make in Leonardo a dispassionate love for its since he was a child, that same love, especially for flowers, which is also innate in Aase and that cultivates its since she was a child.

HEAVENLY RSES a RENDEZVOUS - ART CRITIC BY SILVIA GRASSI - Art critics in Milano at MAD s GALLERY MILANO , MILANO iTALY

Aase Birkhaug -Art critic – Rome Italy 2018

In the world narrated by Aase Birkhaug, roses are the great protagonists of her pictorial compositions. The roses narrated chromatically in all seasons of the year. There is no artist in the world like Aase Birkhaug. She is absolutely the artist who has painted and dedicated her painting, entirely to this beautiful flower. Aase takes us to what I have called many times: new gardens of Heavenly Paradise. In those enchanted gardens where everything has the scent of rose. In her works we can read a true creative poetry. Through her great pictorial sensitivity, the artist portrays the essence of life. An essence that is represented by a rose blossomed. The artist is one of the true interpreters of romantic pictorial hyperrealism. Hers, is a painting that does not simply follow the academic dictates, but is inspired by the new visual poetry, leaving the viewer the task of getting excited. Her painting is the painting of reality. Each stroke is actually a window open to the world. She decides to portray the most beautiful aspects; real earthly paradises. The observer, who sees her works, abandons himself to them, and lets himself be transported to a world completely dominated by beauty and peace. Aase is a painter free from external conditioning. Free from the paradoxes of the sign, paradoxes to which painters who are not able to express real emotions often recur. She is a painter whose philosophy resides in sweetness and eternal beauty. Realities that will save us from destruction. Her pictorial narratives, her "rose gardens", are veritable visual masterpieces. Masterpieces that have nothing to envy to the great masters of the past. Masterpieces whose chromatic linguistics make them visual icons destined to remain on the most important books of world art history. Aase is an artist who, with great gestural harmony, redefines the values of the sign, giving it new meanings. A poetic representation is that proposed by Aase Birkhaug. A figuration with a romantic flavor that takes us back in time. In those silent atmospheres, in those places of memory that are tinged with infinity. A moving figure. A completely new figuration is that lived chromatically by the Artist. A representation attentive to the world of man. Åse Birkhaug presents to us her visual choices. Choices based on a very refined sign and a color that contains many nuances. The bystander observing these representations is deeply shaken by profound vibrations of the soul. Vibrations that start from the heart, up to the dark places of the unconscious. Vibrations that become intimate confessions aimed at corroborating the beauty of the narrated.

Salvatore Russo

AASE BIRKHAUG

“APOTHEOSIS of the ILLUMINATA” NOVEMBER 7-DECEMBER 6, 2018 AMSTERDAM WHITNEY GALLERY NEW YORK

Georgia O’Keefe advised, “Fill a space in a beautiful way.” Following a long tradition of nature-inspired art, Norwegian artist Aase Birkhaug captures visions of earthly delight in her stunning floral paintings which radiate superlative color and light to fill her canvases with supreme beauty. Her reinterpretations of roses transport the viewer to idyllic, iconic locations through her vivid color palette, tantalizing texture, and radiant luminescence. An emissary of nature, Ms. Birkhaug visually combines her physiotherapy training with her passion for flowers to paint exquisite floral interpretations in her signature neo-impressionist style that combines textural brushstrokes with a contemporary approach to color and composition.

Her virtuosic floral oeuvre is both modern and timeless, providing beauty and thought-provoking concepts to the auspicious viewer, commemorating the glories of nature and immortalizing the permanence of our natural world. Inspired by the psychological effects colors and imagery have on the mind, Ms. Birkhaug skillfully and deliberately combines her color palette and rose compositions to yield a calming effect for her viewers. “I discovered several years ago that roses have a positive effect on me, almost like healing, and the combination of the small and the sight feels like a mediation” she explains of her inspiration. These ravishing tableaus become incandescent icons to the lyricisms of nature as the floral kingdom metamorphs into celestial objects of beauty with therapeutic effects on the human soul.

A kaleidoscopic palette of hues such as rosy reds, succulent greens, rich lavenders, sun kissed yellows are imprimatur tones of her dreamscapes where colors burst forth from the canvas with an explosive and effervescent charm. With a balanced sense of composition and keen sensitivity to light, Ms. Birkhaug creates images that capture the spirit of impressionist masters, but then moves that spirit forward into the contemporary realm through a bold, expressive use of color and a modern take on texture and movement. These portraits of roses dazzle the eye as they are rendered with skillful brush strokes that are both calming and invigorating to the soul. A tantalizing interplay of light and shadow, radiate the sun-kissed scenes, imbuing her joyful paintings with ambrosial good cheer and a sense of joie de vivre.

Stunning in its simplicity as it is compelling in its level of detail, Aase Birkhaug illustrates the beauty of her floral subjects in the minutia of visual details and the broad, overall atmosphere of each composition. Proficient in art media such as aquarelle, tempera, gouache, oil, acrylics, and pastels, Ms. Birkhaug’s quest for learning places her at the forefront of artistic innovation. Through her art, Ms. Birkhaug’s visual poetry is a message of serenity to the world with images that are refreshingly tranquil, reminding the viewer of the serene moments and vistas that perhaps still do exist if we but know where to look. Celebrated in both private and public collections in Europe and the U.S., Amsterdam Whitney Gallery is proud to shine the spotlight on this contemporary master!

Ruthie Tucker Amsterdam Whitney Gallery New York

Aase Birkhaug with Rose in Universe

creates an artistic dimension that is expressed beyond the art itself, which takes possession of therapeutic capacities generally belonging to science. The artist manages to blend the emotions that a painting can provoke and the ability to alleviate the pain of people thanks to color through a scientific research of art combined with his love for flowers. Aase Birkhaug thus gives life to works of incredible healing power, a power that embraces the soul of people and warms them through the scent of a flower. In Rose in Universe, it is as if the bunch of flowers of the Olympia of Manet expanded on all the pictorial space of the canvas, thus centralizing the particular nuances of which the painted pink is painted with impressionistic features. The flower emerges estranging itself from itself, takes life from its root and opens itself to a universe of discovery in the deepest self of every human being. The artist has the ability not to paint simple flowers but to bring to light a universe, a state of nature that takes its essence from reality, to propose an enlarged detail that generates stillness in the soul through color. A stillness waiting in the deep that emerges fighting the frenzy of daily mental life. Thanks to her artworks, Aase Birkhaug manages to heal the fractures of the human interiority, she manages to sew it up and placate the pain creating a sure dimension in which we can enter, a path where the wounds of the soul will remain only a weak one and harmonious color. A path of healing therefore that will lead to absolution from pain and from oneself thanks to the intervention of painting.

ART CRITIC from MAD GALLERY MILANO ITALY by ART CRITIQUE DENISE LATTANZIO

19.11.2018

M.A.D. GALLERY MILANO

AASE BIRKHAUG

«Princesse of Roses «

Ode to the Rose, dedicated to my love and to all the Princesses

The color of love is that open your lips

O Rose, your perfume has drugged me, your beauty has bewitched me.

Among all, you are the most beautiful, even more a star.

Wrap me and teach me the language of flowers.

Let s talk all night about you loves, O Rose with soft petals.

You, my Princesse of the Roses and I, your Prince

Caress my bar skin with your smooth creamy mantle

Make me your winged horse.

Quench me with your dew, inebriate me and when I wake up, prove to me that it was not just a dream.

Hypnotic Rose, soft and lush.

Romantic and passionate, elegant and real.

You, Princesse of all roses, that of you are eternally envious and jealous.

You are the life, you are the party and the departure.

Rose without thorns, that even if you had, many and prickles,

I would do of this my body a bundle of wounds

Because you are beautiful and to see you, even for a while,

It would give a meaning to everything, even to my pain.

CARLO GRECO ART DIRECTOR

M.A.D. GALLERY MILANO

ITALY

Text by Elena Gradini Curatore dell arte Rome Italy - Curated my Soloexhibition in Rome july 2018 at Galleria Il Collezionista

The artist Aase Birkhaug shows through her works a delicate and persuasive artistic production that

immediately manages to strike the viewer thanks to the beauty of the theme treated. The nature, in its

most beautiful and delicate essence, is portrayed in fact in form of roses, fragrant flowers, fleshy petals

that almost make them smell. It was from the times of Impressionist painting that there was not a

recovery so focused on painting so defined in “plein air”, since our everyday has now accustomed us to a

technological present. The artist Birkhaug brings us back instead with the mind inside an almost

enchanted garden of roses, outside any coordinated temporal space, and manages to immerse body and

mind within a pleasant dimension capable of arousing pleasant feelings of psychophysical wellbeing .

Such, in fact, is the nature of the artist herself, who joins her artistic profession with her career like

physiotherapist. It is now scientifically proven which may be the benefits of the color therapy, and like

some sounds, subjects or smells are able to activate our brain synapses towards a pleasant sensation of

relaxation and physical and mental wellbeing. In fact, like her roses, also our organism is a living being

that responds to all the internal and external solicitations. States of mind, anxieties, joys, emotions, fears;

everything is filtered by our body that absorbs the reality that surrounds us in order to transform it in

energy. An immense force that can be deleterious or regenerating. Therefore, Aase seems to have the rare

merit of being able to listen to the beats of nature and thus be able to transmit them to her patients and

visitors, who thus manage to share a pleasant well-being pause. This effect, so delicate and powerful, is

certainly due to her great ability with the pictorial matter, like watercolors, tempera, gouache, oil, acrylics,

pastels, as well as the artistic influence absorbed in family, coming in fact from a family tradition

consolidated in the art since the time of Anna Sofie Brunchorst Ibsen who taught painting in Bergen in

Norway at the beginning of 1900. Thanks to her we are able to immerse ourselves for a pleasant moment

inside a luxuriant, florid, and pleasantly seductive nature for our senses.

English version by Gallery Princesse of Roses “Il Collezionista”

Elena Gradini Curatore dell arte Rome Italy

Art Critic from Art Professor Elmadani Belmadani in Taza Marokko

Aase Birkhaug is one of the best international artists , her favorite style is Roses ,semi abstract , she has participated in many great events around the world and received many international art prizes , as medium she uses tempera , oil , acrylics, gouache , watercolor and charcoal and pastel.

Her palette is always rose colors

Elmadani Belmadani

World masters of contemporary art

Taza Bienniales since 2014

" Art Critic by Heinz Playner, Curator and Director of MAMAG Modern Art Museum

"Artist Aase Birkhaug fascinates with the compositions of magnificent flowers. Delicate colors and their implementation reflect the beauty of nature. Abstract background creates positive feelings when looking at the artworks. Through contrasts and light effects, a romantic mood appears in the works of art".

Convinced that the environment can affect her health and mind, painter and physical therapist Aase Birkhaug combines her two passions by painting roses for a calming effect. The color combinations she uses are tastefully and delicately fused. The artworks are painted with watercolors, tempera, gouache, oil, acrylic and pastel and fascinate when viewed with a magical fairytale feel.Her works of art have been shown abroad in Norway as well as in several countries internationallyl in the world

Critic Heinz Playner, Curator and Director of MAMAG Modern Art Museum

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Biennale Edition:

2019