Tróndur Patursson
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Glass art
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ist. He was educated in Norway and was initially a sculptor. He has since become better known as a painter and glass artist.
Tróndur Patursson’s watercolors, glass paintings, tempera paintings and oil paintings have been executed in what is a preponderantly spontaneous idiom. They frequently contain organic-abstract form structures that have their point of origin in the artist’s experience of clouds, ocean waves, rocky formations and the like. For this reason, they do remind us of these natural phenomena. However, the pictures’ nature forms do not make their appearance as being unequivocally recognizable; by way of return, this ameliorates the sense of fantasy. The shapes transform themselves – presently they appear to resemble something in particular, immediately afterward, something entirely different – according to the viewer’s discretion and depending on his/her personal assumptions.