Guðbjörg Lind Jónsdóttir

Guðbjörg Lind Jónsdóttir was born in Ísafjörður in 1961. She graduated from the Painters’ Department of the Icelandic Collage of Art and Crafts in 1985. Three years later, she obtained a degree in teaching from that same school. She lives and works both in Reykjavík and Thingeyri. Her art can be found in numerous collections, including that of the Reykjavík Art Museum, The Ísafjörður Art Museum, The University of Iceland’s Art Museum and in many public and private institutions.

“Landscape as Psychological Wallpaper” (2019)

A beautiful old light switch, clothes hangers on a wall and a radiator from an abandoned house in a small fishing village blend together into a poetic landscape of wallpaper. Floating in time and space, yet anchored in a very specific, historical moment, the everyday objects in Guðbjörg Lind’s paintings exist in the here and now (or then and now), yet are eternal at the same time. Like in so many of Guðbjörg’s works, the details are directly connected with something bigger, a spiritual totality: Her cake tins whisper tales of stories, literary reframed, sometimes eerie, always untold. Her landscapes reveal paths into the wasteland of the human soul, where the hint of foggy paths to mountain sides lead into the blurry mess of our psychological reality. Be it from the divine light that pours down into many of Guðbjörg Lind’s vessels, just like the curtains in her interior paintings, the round shores with the ever shaping ebb and flow of the sea, or the recurring lush green hills of hope and divinity, we always find a calming, caring embrace in her work, whispering to us to come back home”

By Janne Kristensen.

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