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The painter of bright day

Do come along,
Come along
To where  the flowers blossom.
After the toil of harvest time 
They just stand there,
Bright as buttons
In the broad daylight

ELSE HUSTED KJÆR

Painter, poet and lecturer

Born 1948 in Vemb, West Jutland Denmark

Studio and home adress:
Else Husted Kjaer
"Poesigaarden"
Sandbaekvej 12, Nees,
DK-7570 Vemb, Denmark
Telephone : + 45 97884066
Mobile : + 45 51904066

Mail to me

www.poesigaarden.dk

Pictures from the first of April on my 40th anniversary  of my first exhibition - 1970 Torshavn, (the Faroe Islands). I was invited by the famous poet William Heinesen himself.

Former Minister of Defence Soeren Gade opening my speciel exhibition.
Soeren Gade was selected because I think it is a greath struggle to be an artist!

Travelling with "The great bear"

From my studio.
Working on my paintings for "The Great Bear".

Looking from "The Great Bear"
Oil (80 x 80 cm)

Cassiopaia I
Oil (80 x 80 cm)

Cassiopaia II
Oil (80 x 80 cm)

The angel of the universe.
Oil (60 x 60cm)

You can see some of my paintings in "Gallery Amare", Stavanger, Norway.

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Curriculum vitae:

Qualifications:
Artist, poet and writer.
Radio and TV transmissions about the Western part of Denmark and about poetry.
Studies : Aarhus Universitet 1993 –1998 (Litterature )
Study trips : Iceland 1981 and 2005, Ireland 1997, The Faroe Islands 1970, 1985, 1986 and 2005, Finland 1983, Norway 1985 - 1990 and 2005 and India 2002, 2003 and 2005
Member of "Malerpigerne (The Paintinggirls)"
West Jutland - Group Exhibitions 1969 - 1986
Radio programmes about: Artists from the Faroe Island among others William Heinesen, Sven-Bertil Taube and Thorkild Bjørnvig

Published the following collection of poems:
LP: "Folk og fjord (People and inlet)" 1988
Video: "Folk og fjord ( People and inlet)" 1989
"Digte på vandring (Poems walking around)" 1991
"Amygdala" 1997
"Kaptajn Blåskægs skattejagt (The captain with the bluebeard)" 1998

Genre:
Oil on canvas
Gold leaf has the habit of "falling softly on the canvases"

Lectures:
Poetry in everyday life
Nordic writers with, among others, William Heinesen
Poems

Award:
Anne E. Munchs legat 2002

Exhibitions abroad:
The Faroe Island: The Thorshavn Museum of art 1970.
Iceland 1981.
Ålandsøerne Finland 1983.
Solway Art Society England 1996.
Tao Cont. Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 2002.
Shiristi Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India 2002.
Delhi Art Gallery, Delhi 2003.
Art Motif Gallery, Delhi, India 2003.
Bangalore, India, 2003.
Art Wold Gallery, Madras, India 2003.
Petter Dass Museet, Alstahaug, Norge 2005 and 2007.

Exhibitions in Denmark:
Gimsing Hoved Struer 1995 (Seperat), 2005 og 2009.
Varde Kunstforening 2005.
Marsh Kunstfoening, Virum 2005.
Coloplast Kunstforening Humlebæk og Thisted, 2005.
B&O Kunstforening Struer 2005.
Herning Sygehus Kunstforening 2000.
Vestjyske Kunstneres Efterårsudstilling 1980 - 2009.
Aktivet Centeret Holstebro 2005.

Selected exhibitions: (Randomly chosen)
"Brøndsalen" Copenhagen 1995, 1996 and 1998.
Galleri Gammel Strand, Copenhagen 1995.
Gallari Pialeh, Copenhagen 1999, 2001 and 2000
Rundetårn, Copenhagen 2003 og 2007.
Vejle Kunstforening 2003.
Musikhuset, Esbjerg 2003.
Pakhuset, Nykøbing Sjælland 2003.
Teko Center, Herning 2003.
Landsbygalleriet, Timring 2003 and 2005.
Thorasminde, Bagsværd 2003.
Roskilde Kunstforening 2004.
Åskov Kunstforening 2004.
Det Ny Kastel, Thisted 2003.
Vestas Kunstforening 2004.

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