Between
Between (2026) move through shifting forms and layered spaces, where translucent figures appear and dissolve again into the surface. Working through gesture, repetition, and erasure, the paintings evolve intuitively rather than toward fixed imagery. The suspended forms suggest traces of bodies, organisms, or psychological states, unstable presences hovering between abstraction and recognition.
Displacements
Displacements (2026) is a series of four paitnings made from earlier sketches. Through a morphological approach, the works move between abstraction and presence, inviting the viewer into a space quite unease and shifting forms.
What Lingers
The works in this series (2026) originates from dream sketches. Through a morphological approach the works moves between the spaces of body, insect and landscape. The works balance between the recognizable and dissolved, creating a subtle sense of unease and instability through layered surfaces, traces and shifting forms.
Interstisces
Interstisces (2026) emerge through layered movement, where forms slowly surface from the paint without becoming fully fixed. Broad gestures, transparent layers, and shifting color fields create spaces that feel both organic and psychological. The works move between landscape, body, and memory and make unstable forms held in a state of transformation.
States of movement
States of movement (2025) explores shifting states of tension, flow and transformation. Across the three paintings Circulation, Condensation and Displacement movement appears as something both physical and emotional: drifting, gathering, dissolving and reforming. Rather than offering resolution, the works remain in motion, inhabiting a space between sensation and structure where perception continues to shift.
Before the Snow
A series og paintings from November – December (2025) show a landscape in transition before winter and snow arrive. Through the works Between, Ground and Air stillness, space and the connection between earth, trees and sky are present. Bare branches and muted tones balance between weight and lightness, presence and dissolution.
Internal Interactions (2025) is a series of paintings that study nature from inside. In the creating of the works focus was on a biologist, biosemiotic and philosophical approach to the pre studies and final works.
Surroundings
The Surrondings series (2024 – 2025) reflects something that can be seen as conversations between senses and elements.
Symphony
The Symphony series (2023- 2024) tell tales of contrasts between the solid and permanent and fluid and ephemeral.
Climes
The Climes series (2022-2023) is a further processing of memories from sensory impressions in plein air.
Perceptions
In the Perceptions series (2020-2021) light of nature in winter and how it affects perception of shapes and colours are explored.
Timeless Motion
The paintings in the series “Timeless Motions” from 2025 explore nature, and humanity’s connection to nature. These paintings can be seen as studies of nature from outside, represented with an abstract interpretation of a magnifyed part of tree trunks
Life on our planet
The works in this series (2019 – 2020) are reflections on humanity’s impact on nature. Apparently descriptions of life on earth. Beneath the surface on every work is a written quotation from “Life on our planet”, by Sir David Attenborough.
When the world quivers
The series of works in the series “When the world quivers” includes works in watercolour and ink made in the periode January – March 2025. The works were created as a response to external events, from an inner space of sensory memory. Centered on impact on nature, humans, lives and beeing. Past, present, beyond.
Mona Bjørnstad 