Delighted to be featured at the April 2025 edition of SCAN magazine, a beautiful publication celebrating Nordic design, culture and creativity.
“Norwegian painter Kjell Folkvord reflects on how the ongoing wars and volatile world situation have found their way onto some of his canvasses.
“As an artist, you are vulnerable to all sorts of impressions,” Kjell Folkvord explains. Folkvord, who lives and works in London, says that in particular the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have affected his work, though he stresses that might not be immediately visible to the audience. “I’m an expressionist. There are no corpses lying around, only perhaps more tension in the colour and more intensity in the shapes,” he explains.
You can read the full article here: Kjell Folkvord: Vulnerable to impressions | SCAN Magazine