We invite you to look into the creative world of Adele Heide and her paintings, where the north with its subtle sun, cold sea and gentle winds from the bay, so easily intertwine with with dreams and imagination, creating combinations of cool shades of surrounding fantasies and hot colors of impulses, which are being reflected in paints on canvas and paper.
There is such an amazing place in Norway – the Hurum Peninsula. Narrow and long, its shape resembles a herring with a forested mountain range in the middle. The long shores of the peninsula are washed by fjords. The climate here is surprisingly mild, and the nature is wild and lush.
The people of Hurum live mostly in wooden houses, in small settlements scattered along the coast, and one of them, Tofte, is nestled at the farthest tip of the peninsula.
There, if you stand on the granite rocks of a svaberg, descending to the sea in flat black-pink tongues, near the reed thickets, where wild swans raise their chicks - and look into the distance, to the sea, you will see the Skagerrak and even further Denmark.
Not far from there is a small white house with a red roof and an old lonely apple tree. A little woman lives in this house - the artist Adele Heide.
Adele tells that it is her connection with the fjords that shapes and influences her artistic style. The interplay of light and shadow, the vibrant colors of the changing seasons and the ethereal atmosphere of the fjords are the main sources of inspiration for her work.
