Heger-Hedloy Violette

Violette Heger-Hedløy feels deeply connected to the craft of-creating usable art pieces, establishing unique and special bonds between the artist, the user/observer, and the work. Her silk painting mounted on alpaca blankets are exactly that: something you can observe from the outside and wear or wrap yourself in – giving various layers of experience. Her technique, developed over the last 20 years, is related to the watercolour technique because of the way the silk unforgivingly absorbs the paint in excitingly unpredictable ways. The power and energy of colour is material for Violette, and she passes this force and vitality on to her audience. She controls her gesture, but it is in the symbiosis between the paint and the silk that the unlikeliness and marvel occur. Her gestures and the spontaneous nature of the paint and the silk becomes a marvel that causes wonder and amazement. The result is an abstract aesthetic but very real to touch experience.