About the artist
The artist Gisli Sigurdsson was born in 1930, and brought up on a big farm, near middle of Iceland. At a young age, he became a journalist and began painting at the same time. He has held these two professions ever since. His 48 years of painting, have seen a lot of changes, and since 1967 he has behind him 12 private exhibitions, most of them rather big. The three biggest ones was held at “Kjarvalsstaðir” the main exebition hall in Reykjavík for the last decades.
Two times Gísli had exhibition at the Nordic House in Reykjavík, and also one exhibition in the “National Museum” in Reykjavík. Two times he had exhibitions at the Gallery at Selfoss, and once at Gallery Háhól, Akureyri, and one in Hafnarborg, but his last exhibition was at Gerðarsafn in Kópavogur, 2001
Gisli Sigurðsson has always painted mainly the nature of the country, sometimes almost abstrakt, sometmes rather realistic, but in the later years he has often used blended technik, not least photography.
His pictures tells stories, sometimes with nationlistic points, even with the old sagas and besides he has often painted portrait for individuals and company.
His favorites motives are to be found in the middle of Iceland near the glaciers. His last effort was in the autumn 2007 when he put together a book with photographs of fifty paintings from the last twenty-five years, and with every painting there is a poem by the painter.
Here you can see overview over his pictures
Here is another album
Here you can see slidesshow
