artist
Guðrún Einarsdóttir
- Iceland, 1957
Guðrún Einarsdóttir is one of Iceland’s most prominent contemporary artists. Her practice is rooted in nature’s wealth of colours and shapes. A striking but deceptive modesty is characteristic of her works. A complexity and richness of detail lies behind the simplicity. Her painterly technique relies on meticulous examinations of materials, and experiments that are essential to the creative process. She regards colours and shapes as a part of nature – but not in the traditional sense, more in a general way. Guðrún Einarsdóttir never gives titles to her works. Her characteristically repetitive style reveals traces of what appear to be moss, drops of water, Iceland moss, snow and ice. Landscape fragments form abstract patterns. Gu∂rún Einarsdóttir was educated at the Reykjavik Art School och Icelandic College of Art and Crafts and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts.
