Ultramarine Blue Winter

During my first winter in Norway, everything felt heavier than usual. The lack of sunlight and constant cold made even small things feel intense. I've always relied on color in my work, but during that time most colors felt distant. The only one that stayed and felt true was ultramarine blue.

This project brings together a series of medium to larger-format works made during that period using fluid acrylics, acrylic ink and oil pastels on raw, unprimed canvas.

On unprimed canvas, the pigment doesn't sit on the surface — it sinks in, spreads, and sometimes disappears. The works are shaped by allowing the color, along with the memories and emotions it carries, to move and settle on its own. Across the series, ultramarine shifts between something dense and present and something that almost fades out, becoming both an anchor and a quiet guide through the first dark winter.