ingunn milla joergensen

​"For as long as I can remember I have had a huge fascination with texture and aging objects, Simple everyday things with stories that are equally important to me as the object itself. Standing inside a huge old barn when the sun is beaming through all the gaps fills me with great respect for those who, with such perseverance and hard work created It. These buildings are not pretentious, but honest, beautiful monuments, built to shelter. Essential constructions, left standing for generations. Then there is that sense of mystery, the darkness and dust, silence and presence. This is what I try to achieve in my work- This sense of something timeless, grounded, peaceful, quiet, and the presence of the absent."
florals
​"For as long as I can remember I have been obsessed with flowers. My grandfather gave me a tiny patch in his garden when I was 5 and I have been growing plants and flowers ever since. Now I have a huge garden with a potting shed and painting this passion gives me great joy."
landscapes
"I spend as much time being in nature as I possibly can. It is my source of energy, my inspiration, my meditation. The woods, the ocean, the marsh, a meadow… I am so lucky being surrounded by so much beauty." 
barns
"A barn to me is so much more than a fascinating and often impressive structure. It is a shelter for crops and livestock tended by generations before us, it is past, presence and future. Reliable, quiet….soulful and most often unpretentious in its understated beauty. To me they are grounding, humbling and fills me with awe." 
​-Not unlike a cathedral
nests
"An incredibly fascinating and genius structure, who’s one purpose is cocooning new life. So fragile and yet so incredibly strong."
boat houses
"I live in a costal community and we still have a few of them around. Not so unlike the barns I guess."
barn landscapes
"A barn to me is so much more than a fascinating and often impressive structure. It is a shelter for crops and livestock tended by generations before us, it is past, presence and future. Reliable, quiet….soulful and most often unpretentious in its understated beauty. To me they are grounding, humbling and fills me with awe."
ingunn milla joergensen
fine art painter    |   kennebunkport, maine    |       207 318 8813       |      contact ingunn milia joergensen