"In the Artist's Garden" Tor-Arne Moen and Clare Woods

Tor-Arne Moen (b. Notodden 1966) turns 60 on May 13th this year, and we start the celebration by showing the large-format painting "Humlehimmel".

"Almost every day since the beginning of June I have taken a flower or a twig from our garden, put it in water and conscientiously painted it into a large picture that has slowly taken its baroque form as new plants have bloomed or simply enticed with their summery, ephemeral beauty." Tor-Arne Moen, August 8, 2025

Once the summer garden flowers were attached to the canvas, he embarked on studies of Telemark's atmospheric ponds, which has resulted in a series of beautiful and colorful paintings of autumn water lily leaves.

Moen's paintings are joined by British Clare Woods. It is a pleasure for us to be able to show her graphic works to a Trøndelag audience for the first time. Woods has recently worked with the still life motif, but we also show a wider range of motifs in the exhibition. She has an impressive CV with many solo exhibitions both in her home country and internationally, and is represented in a number of public collections. She will open a major museum exhibition in London this summer; "A Garden Without Seasons" at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.

Tor-Arne Moen has captured his work on "Humlehimmel" on film, which will be shown during the exhibition.

We hope the exhibition will give the audience a beautiful respite in a troubled world, and a taste of summer's abundance of plants and colors.