How did you start making art? 

When I went to the Rudolph Steiner School, and first started experimenting with colours and the like.

What made you begin to include text in your works?  

I don’t know when, but real texts [I started using] maybe in 2008. I can’t quite remember. The reason for it was that [to me] letters are also art, and [they] have meant a lot to me, helping me understand what I can read.

Do you have a motivation behind the messages in your paintings?

Not necessarily, but they do have messages – saying here is something I wish to journey into, to the inner world. I want to dive into what I’ve made.

In the piece “Notes for a Journey” you use text as an intervention in public spaces. What was the background for these texts?

It started with how I had begun painting naked people, talking about how they were feeling in themselves. Then more came after it was commissioned for the exhibition.

In your notebooks you work a lot with text. Can you describe the process with these?

I work with text, and I work with describing how I build a world. How the figures look, how they experience things – and how I have created that world. I use both English and Norwegian quite a lot.  

What do you think about the role text plays in visual art?

Amazing.