Bente Halvorsen
Norway
27 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Works by Bente Halvorsen
Bente Halvorsen was born and raised in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. She started painting about 20 years ago, when her family lived in Spain for a year. During this year she attended a course with a Swedish painter and learned his techniques. Her first painting tools were homemade tempera, pigment powder mixed with eggs, milk and even beer. Back in Norway, she continued to paint, and explored both oil and acrylic paint on larger canvases. In 2012, a friend also became her colleague, when she started whatELSEisnew. There she has a studio, as well as walls to display our art and also the interest in reuse. Recently, she has started painting courses for smaller groups, and finds it interesting and inspiring to teach the participants different techniques and how to build up a painting, step by step. Back in Spain many times, and in 2019 the family built a finca surrounded by thousands of orange trees. She got her own studio, "Entre mil naranjos", and now live half the year in Spain. Here there are opportunities for countless mountain hikes, and by being observant on the hikes, she gets a lot of inspiration and new ideas for new paintings constantly emerge. Her subjects in paintings vary from nature to faces, as well as abstract. She wants to have the opportunity to paint what she feels at any given time.