I alternate between working as a painter and as a graphic artist. The two different techniques mirror each other in expression, and they offer me different challenges.

For me as an artist it is important pursuing the dialogue between inner and exterior landscapes. My own reflections on nature's energy and beauty — and depicting it, can be an important starting point. I strive towards seeing the landscape — as in a different light, seeking the inner light in the artistic space.

Several pictures are formed by my 'conversations' with nature itself, vague memories from both dreams and the real world are repeating starting points for my world of image impressions. My roots, originating from Northern Norway, have put its distinctive mark on my artistic work.

Eva Harr

What are the paintings all about? The pictures do not depict the beauty of nature, but are themselves meditations on beauty. They do not demonstrate proud posessiveness of landscape, but clearly show that this landscape withholds such interests. They do not depict direct simliarites to places where the artist has been, but are more like 'edited recordings' of her solitaire and subtle conversations with nature itself. The pictures do not use other artist's works as their model, only nature's own atmosphere and voice. The paintings are true, not because they are truthful. They are natural, not because they depict nature. They are beautiful, but not because they are elaborate. The pictures do not reflect art history — they merely create it.

Summary from the catalogue text 'Nordnorsk tristesse'
(Northern tristesse) by Dag Solhjell, 1999