artist
Torbjørn Olsen
- Faroe Islands, 1956
Torbjørn Olsen is one of the foremost representatives of the landscape painting which has characterized the art in the Faroe Islands during the post-war period. Motifs from small fishing communities by the sea, rock formations and strong colours are characteristic of the artists of his generation. Olsen has followed his own path in landscape painting through a distinctive colourism with expressive colour compositions. He focuses particularly on built environments, the crowds of colourful houses, the sharp many-angled edges of gables and roof surfaces, the marked surfaces of the fields, and the monumental contours of the cliffs. Torbjørn Olsen was educated at Robert Askou-Jensen’s drawing school at Glyptoteket, Copenhagen.