Gallopperiet -Christiania town's gallery were I exhibited my portraits in 2009.

2007
Oil on Canvas
80x50cm

My first Christiania portrait. Thomas was one of the first Christianites I got to know.

Sold

The edge is made of a collage of art by artists the sitter liked.

2008
Oil on Canvas over board
Framed with found branches
66x90cm

I met Tim at the Christmas Market in Christiania. He won the hat he is wearing.

£1000/10.000kr

Tim's portrait was the first to gain a frame - a frame so difficult to make that it spurred me on to make different frames for each person according to their personality.

2008
Oil on canvas over board
Drumstick frame
104x80.5cm

I met Lyhne in Christiania's Opera building where he regularly performs

£1000/10.000kr

Grev Lyhne was so intense when I first met him I decided to use intense colour in his portrait. Among other things, Lyhne is a drummer.

2008
Oil on canvas over board
Iron frame
60.5x86cm

Jesper is a bike mechanic.

£1100/11.000kr

Jesper has an angular face. I chose therefore to carve him out in paint using a pallette knife. I have yet to paint another portrait this way. The background is painted with a brush.

2008
Oil on Canvas over board
Boat wood frame
94x64cm

Rink was a fisher so I made his outer frame from boat wood.

£600/6000kr

This painting was done in one sitting using one colour of oil paint and a cloth to wipe the paint off with.

2008
Oil on canvas
Boat wood frame
119x107cm

Frank is half Greenlander, half Dane.

£1,000/10.000kr

2008
Oil on canvas
Parasol wood frame
27.5cm2

Sketch of a lady from Christiania
£200/2.000kr

2008
Oil on Canvas
25cm2

Pia is half Greenlander

£200/2.000kr

2008
Oil on canvas
Worm eaten wood
58.5x83cm

Johan says he is royalty from a former life.

£600/6000kr

This worm eaten wood is made vulnerable and at the same time interesting by the decay.

2008
Oil on canvas
30x45

Johan sat with a beer and a big smile and I just had to capture it.This painting puts a smile on my face.

£190/1.900kr

2008
Oil on Canvas
Rope frame
65x123cm

"Life is a spiritual process" Leif Asterix.

£1,100/11.000kr

The top Leif is wearing has many relevant words on it.

Life in progress, Therefore the painting is 'unfinished'

I battled with this sketch until it became quite a detailed piece.

2008
Oil on canvas
Framed in found wood
84.5x89.5cm

Maja's frame was meant to have a potato imprinted on it, but it sold before I could complete it.

Sold

The buyer passed away and the painting went to auction and is now in Germany.

Maja and two other girls were given the identities of "potato girls", because they moved into a house in Christiania that was tied up in controvery with the previous owner.

2008
Oil on Canvas
Painted found wood
31.5x40.5cm

A little boy whose father trades in Christiania's street

Sold

2008
Oil on Canvas
Iron frame built by Charlotte
50x134cm

The background painting is based on Christianite painter, Henrik Schütze's work

£1000/10.000kr

Henrick Schützes painting was yellow where I painted it green. I made the change to help bring out the skin colour.

2008
Oil on canvas
91.5x61cm

My first impression of Inge was based on the contrast between her attire and the colourful fruit and veg she was selling.

£1000/10.000kr

Inges gothic appearance makes a strong impression. I painted her over the edge of the canvas to create that impression of her being very close - almost confrontational.

2009
Oil and Graffiti paint on MDF board
154x80cm John is Christiania's local minister and joiner. He has Faith, Hope and Love for this Town

£1400/14.000kr

John is a visionary person. He once wrote an article where he compared hippie ideals to Jesus' message - hence the symbolism in the background.

John Andersen is a joiner. I therefore used joinery to make the panels behind which his portrait is found.

2009
Oil on canvas (curtain material)
350x215cm
Frame made of beams

This is a collaboration between passers-by, the pictured artist and myself.

£4,500/45.000kr

Passers-by were given access to spray paint and a large empty surface. Once filled with various motifs, Anders Schmidt who is portrayed here turned the chaos into a backdrop I could paint his portrait into.

Someone sprayed silver paint onto the canvas without permission, but it actually could come off with turps. I removed it from behind his head to bring back some of the vibrance of colour that it had hidden.

I allowed some of the silver paint from underneath the figure to show through the hooded top. On the whole, the silver paint was a blessing in disguise.

Anders is an airbrush artist, graffiti artist and tattooist. Some of the images on his leg are visible in the background graffiti.

Many random people, young and old have been involved in making this painting. This is a close-up of some of the work produced.

2009
Oil on canvas
80cm2

Not technically from Christiania, but a frequent visitor during his final year at school.

£900/9.000kr

Am young man with very intense eyes - gripped and merging with the cosmos

2009
Oil on canvas
Frame made of found wood
130x90cm

This is not quite a self-portrait even though I am in it.

£1700/17.000kr

This painting represents my first and second impressions of Christiania

2009
Oil on Canvas and collage
Collaged frame
54x64cm

Christiania's bridge makes a pattern in the background.

£700/7000kr

Ida is a singer and activist having acted as a bridge between Christiania and the government. The choice of grey paint was to connect the portrait better with the documents pasted into the background.

The documents relate to the discussion about Christiania's future. The frame relates to Ida's solo album, End of Blue

2009
Oil on Canvas
Paintbrush frame
55x75cm

Laurie Grundt is a Norwegian painter who resided in Christiania until 2009. A very charismatic character!

Since Laurie was leaving Christiania and moving back to Norway, he let me make a frame for his portrait out of his very well-used paintbrushes.

2008
Oil on found canvas
Unravelling woolen frame
78cm2

Acid Kim passed away 5 months after I painted him.

£1,200/12.000kr

Kim confronts the viewer with his stare.

This frame is made of wool that is unravelling, like his life was when I painted him.

Translated, the words around the mirror literally read "You cannot kill us, we are part of you" -

I made this mirror with words from a popular Christiania song above and below the mirror. They read "I kan ikke slå os ihjel, vi er en del af jerselv".