I work with watercolors and oil paintings. The intention of my work is to create a fairytale about and with men as the main motive. I wish to show men as objects and beautiful creatures. The watercolors have qualities that produce the romantic feeling I wish to attain in my work, - the pastels of the watercolors are simple and it mostly reminds us of illustrations to love stories. My goal is to make pictures like A. W. Bouguereau [French Academic Painter, 1825-1905]) nymphs or Charles Rokas (1912-1999) gipsy women.

The heart of the project is to confirm that women have their own, distinct female gaze. Therefore I spend time establishing my own gaze, through painting and drawing men I find attractive. I work with men who are willing to stand model for me. The works embraces everything from nudes to portraits.

Photos are references in my work. I take photos of men in arranged landscapes.  I also use the computer to manipulate pictures from books and magazines through changing the faces and bodies towards standards I find attractive. By painting, I add intimacy to the images through the brushstrokes. I make the men into my own objects of desire.

I look at the Pre Raphaelites (Waterhouse, Lord Leighton and Millais), Art Noveau (Aubrey Beardsley and Bayros), French salongkunst (Delaroche, Bouguereau) paperbacks, record covers, posters (60-70`s) and comics (Milo Manara). These artists are constantly painting an ideal body or universe, with strong sexual features.

I also get inspired by the front covers of romantic novels, such as the “stjerneroman” series published by Bladkompaniet in Oslo. These frontcovers shows pictures of men, fainting women and horses in the sunset. 

The artists I relate to, are not from a particular period in time and are in a wide scale of art, from what is considered high class to low class. Some of the artists I would like to mention are: Marlene Dumas, Elisabeth Peyton, Andrew Wyeth, Balthus, Charles Roka and John Currin. Even if they as artists are as different from me as from each other, they all have in common that they make paintings of the opposite sex, or they are painting in an illustrative manner, in which reminds one of romantic book covers. They have all made pictures of what we can call the sensuous body out of reach.

In the same way Dumas has painted her young boys from different picture material, Peyton is sampling royalties and pop stars into her own world trough painting them, Roka spent a lifetime painting the gypsy woman he never got, Balthus painted his pre pubertal girls and Currin is painting his fantasy women. Through their paintings they all get intimate or close to their objects. In this way one can say that in my watercolors I have found a way to get intimate with my objects of desire, trough the possibilities of the painting itself.