Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin

Paint

Form and colour

Painting of a girl by the pond in Reykjavík
A naturalistic painting in oil
A marriage painting in an archaic style
A marriage painting in an archaic mode, in oil and gold leaf on canvas

Art books – unique books not intended for reproduction

A book spun around Leonard Cohen’s poem G-d Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot. His attention has been not so much a consolation as a charge of magic.

Fleyg orð – Words in Flight

This is a book in which each page is a functional kite: a metaphor for the power of the literate word, and a reflection on the spoken word, in the age of the amnesiac word of the internet.

Picture of an exhibition at the Kjarvalsstaðir gallery
Open for examination at the Reykjavík municipal gallery Kjarvalsstaðir.
Kite book exhibition in Akureyri
At the Amtsbókasafn library in Akureyri.
Kite from the poem Beowulf
A sample kite on display

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