Mythological Birds

As my roots are deeply in the Nordic soil, I’ve grown up listening to folklore and tales about our mythological foreast animals. I’ve drawn inspiration from that heritage as I created a series of birds that have the power to fly between the two worlds – the upper wolrld and the underworld.
They each have a story. I didn’t know exactly what the big blue crow would emerge into as I started the painting, but in the process the crow kind of let me know that he is the gatekeeper between the worlds. He is very sharp-eyed and knowing.
This series was born very intuitively. I had an idea of the bird and its qualities, and then sketched roughly on the canvas and painted quite fast.