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Marit Saxegaard is a professional artist living and working in Grenland in the southern part of Norway. She is working in oils as well as in watercolour and dry media, and her work ranges from portraiture and figure painting via still life to landscapes and cityscapes. Her main goal as a painter is to extract and make visible the actual beauty of the world in accordance with Plato’s definition of beauty as the splendour of the true.
She chooses to work in a classical style because she deeply connects with traditional works which aptly express reality. “I hope to bring about a respect for life and the creation around us,” she says. “and I want to do my best to faithfully render what is beautiful to me. Hopefully others will find that beauty reflected in my work.”
A respected educator, Marit Saxegaard conducts classes and workshops in her studio Atelier Verfetet, where she teaches representational drawing and painting focusing on traditional painting techniques and contemporary studio practice.
“One’s art goes as far and deep as one’s love goes, and there is no reason for painting but that.” ~ Andrew Wyath