Christmas Exhibition

'Favorite Trees' by Elin Neumann and the sculpture 'Loss' by Ulla Villefrance Salling-Mortensen



'Golden Day' by Elin Neumann



'Deep orange Impact' by Elin Neumann

Christmas Exhibition and Much More . . .

'Bjerget' - 'The Mountain' - by Elin Neumann


'Green Lake' and 'Red Horizon by Elin Neumann



'Overblik' - sculpture by Ulla Villefrance Salling-Mortensen. Billedtavler by Hanne Mathiessen




Sculpture by Ulla Villefrance Salling-Mortensen and 'Summer Showers' by Elin Neumann

Workshop: Japanese Wind Drawing

Drawing with ink and a branch from Hazel. Drawing in the wind with repetitive movements. These drawings reflect an
intimate response to the immediate landscape by ‘mapping’ the overlooked movement of varied grasses and trees in the wind.
The grasses, especially, – when dipped into ink create the drawings themselves through idiosyncratic, repetitive movements.

Room with a view

Art can save your Day

Earth Day is finished. After 2 years of moving this triptych back and forth and up and down and finally decided which panel
was left and right wing and decided which kinda frame and so on . . .

Right now, I can barely recall what the fuss was all about. Art is an ever-changing, ever-growing thing. It's the challenge you
want to take and the effort you want to make. At the end of the day, art restores sanity.
Art can save your day – even while the sun is going down. Now, take a deep breath, take a break, take a photo, go to your
computer and open iPhoto – and – save!

More LoveLetters

At The Radisson Hotel. From left: Elin Neumann and Hanne Matthiesen. Visit Hanne's blog here

Loveletters from a Room

More photos from the LOVELETTER Event at The Radisson Hotel on Kulturnat Aarhus

L O V E L E T T E R S

What has Shakespeare, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Gandhi in common?
It's obvious – they are talking about LOVE. And they are not only talking about it, they are writing about it too!

So let's give everybody and his brother something to talk about, to write about and even send it by snail mail if we can make
it through that Friday Night on Radisson Hotel Friday Oct. 9. 2009.

Medvirkende kunstnere: Lis Rejnert Jensen, Barbara Katzin, Heidi Bielfeldt, Elin Neumann og Hanne Matthiesen

LOVE LETTERS, Radisson, Kulturnatten Aarhus, Fredag 9. oktober, kl. 18-01

Akvareller fra Bjerget

Weekenden med Rejseholdet blev på alle måder vellykket: Alle kunstnere fandt
hurtigt 'deres sted' at male, andre fandt en Long John til turen ned til Tennisbanen
mens nogen stegte rødspætter i lange baner og vejret var bare fantastisk . . .

Jeg sad på Bjerget i knap 4 timer med 5 ark godt 360 grs. Aquari, St Petersborg
farverne og min bedste Da Vinci pensel nr 20. Nu skal det blive spændende om
nogle af indtrykkene kan omsættes til lærredet.

På Bjerget

Kurser på Vilhelmsdal

Et kig ind i atelieret mandag og tirsdag, hvor her er privat elever der arbejder med maleri, akvarel og tegning.
Her arbejdes intensivt i 5 timer dagligt, med gennemgang af arbejderne efter hver mødedag.
Vi har stadig ledige pladser på holdene. Se http://www.vilhelmsdal.dk/

Sommer Kurser 2009

Et par fotos fra sommerens intensive kurser i maleri.

Red and Green

Ophængning på Galleri Tornby i Tversted. Elin Neumann og Anna Grethe Aaen.

Messing Around

Naturen som Udgangspunkt

Fremfor at genskabe et sèt landskab på et lærred, forsøger jeg at genskabe dets essens. Hvert sekund bringer nye farver og
bevægelser og er en evig og tidløs kilde til inspiration og arbejde. Netop det tidløse har altid fascineret mig. Himlens og
vandets skiftende farver, de vidttrakte marker, den fjerne horisont – de håndgribelige ting: Skove og marker, jord, sand og
sten, alt giver mindelser om fjerne forekomster, og det uendelige i tiden. Som et tidsbillede af steder, der har inspireret mig
og sat deres spor.”

Sommerkurser Maleri

Der er stadig 3 ledige pladser på weekendkurset i maleri 8. – 9. august. Vi glæder os til at byde de første gæster velkommen i
dejlige nyrenoverede lokaler i den over 200 år gamle kampestensbygning og tidligere Hestestald. Se mere på vilhelmsdal.dk


Her er kursuslokalet gjort klar til mødelokale: Når maleholdet indtager rummet vil her være opstillet staffelier og maleborde.
Foto følger snarest.

Sculpture by The Sea

Today we went to see the exhibition Sculpture by The Sea. It was a wonderful and unique exhibition, and the quality of the
event was quite obvious, I belive. Featuring over 50 sculptures from across the world the exhibition site runs from the start
of the beach at Tangkrogen past the Queen’s summer residence to Ballehage Beach and into the forest around the magical
building 'Varna'. Produced by ARoS for the City of Aarhus, the exhibition is under the patronage of Their Royal Highnesses
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.



The photographer and australian artists Campbell Robertson-Swann's sculpture 'So Far So Good'.



Jörg Werner-Schmidt, Germany: 'Humans Coming Out of The Water'.



Richie Kuhaupt. 'Littleman'.



Ngardarb Francine Riches. 'Here But Not To Stay



John Ramsay. 'Floating Memories'.



Philip King CBE. 'It's a Swell Day for Stormy Petrels'.




Haruyuki Uchida. 'Intersection'.

I M A G I N E

IMAG NE by Emma Anna, Australia.


Bjørn Kromann-Andersen. 'This is Not an Acorn'.


Steinunn Thòrarinsdóttir. 'Lights'.


Peter Tilley. 'Between The Idea and The Reality'.



Keld Moseholm. 'Column'.



Marcus Tatton. 'Carbon Equation'.

Studio Up-Date and some ponderings

After we moved to the farm, I haven't got the time for exhibitions abroad, and thats why I have been blogging in danish the
past weeks or so. Sorry folks, friends and former Journalspacer's :-) Things are not going that fast I wanted, but hopefully
my studio will be finished this month. I have so many things to do and so little time.

Because of the lack of time - and a proper work space - I am overfilled with new ideas and expressions right now: I believe
an artist is prophetic in the sense that his or her job is to create something entirely new. That is one of the things I strive for,
to do something that doesn't look backward but forward and defines the times in which I live.


Today I am surrounded by green. When I take a look outside the windows it's green all over the place – green – a color I
avoided for years. Today I like it!

Studio Up-date

Nu har skorstensfejeren været her og erklæret skorstenen for åben! Der er dog ingen grund til at tænde op i pejsen endnu,
for her mangler både vinduer og – skorsten! Men det går hurtigt fremad, snart er gavlen færdig og vinduerne står i laden klar
til at blive sat i. Jeg har nu haft et helt år uden værksted, og har i den forløbne tid arbejdet med mine billeder stort set alle
steder her på ejendommen: I en boks i hestestalden (indtil den blev revet ned), på loftet (indtil der kom frost) i bryggerset
(så kom smeden) i stuen (!!!) og nu i bryggerset igen! Jeg glæder mig til at få rolige arbejdsforhold - men i mellemtiden er
vejret måske blevet så stabilt, at der kan males udenfor? Jeg kunne jo prøve med en akvarel . . .