Fine Art Pigment Print
Size: 50x50 cm
Editions: 50
Numbered and signed
 
                                                                                                      
Before he picked up a paintbrush, Oslo-born-and-based artist Pipten pursued a career in music. First, he studied violin. Then he studied music and its transcendent powers. He grew interested in sound design, in creating new sonic combinations, and in music’s ability to capture and create emotion. 
 
In his late twenties, however, he shifted gears, devoting himself to painting. A few short years of total art studio immersion have yielded results that suggest a continuum with his previous work. He never abandoned the motion and visceral emotion that explodes with the best house music. In fact, he’s brought those elements to the canvas. 
 
“I find many parallels between music composition and composing a painting,” Pipten says. “You need that melody or that hook or the right color balance to make a great piece of work that can stir emotions so you feel something deeply beyond just the lines of the face or the simple beat coming through. I strive to make paintings you can engage with it every day, that make the viewer feel in the moment through the vibration colours.” 
 
Pipten—his nom de pinceau is a shortening of his birth name, Philip Thorkildsen—paints portraits and cityscapes defined by vivid splashes of color and bold, kinetic brushstrokes. The typical frozen-in-time effect of classical portraiture—that eternal, often evocative stillness—takes a backseat in his work. Instead, collisions of color and shape give his work a sense of immediacy, of motion, of personality, life.