Logan Riley

Born in Oslo and now work­ing in Stock­holm, Turid Ulven cap­tures nature at its most human. Trav­el­ing to San Fran­cisco at the age of 18, Ulven has been trav­el­ing in her heart ever since. Just like the sub­jects of her paint­ings and pho­tog­ra­phy she moves and changes with the sea­sons, with the shad­ows and light. Turid Ulven has a way of mak­ing nature acces­si­ble on more than a phys­i­cal level– her pic­tures “Fem­i­nine Sun­set” brings to light the erotic soft­ness of the Nor­we­gian land­scape through reflec­tion and the sub­dued, almost hid­den colours that just a typ­i­cal glance would over look. In It Takes Two to Tango the viewer gets a sense of art imi­tat­ing life, nature-imitating human­ity. The twisted trunk, rem­i­nis­cent of a hug or lov­ing embraces brings this ques­tion to mind– is nature influ­enced by us, or are we also influ­enced by nature? The art­work– art­work in all media– of Turid Ulven is our world seen through the eyes of a car­ing, kind and mature soul. Work­ing on dif­fer­ent plat­forms other than art to raise aware­ness of the world, and to open the hearts of her peers to a beau­ti­ful world that might get over-looked. She brings to us a humane Earth full of lights and shad­ows, mixed with life and death– a world that is pos­si­bly more human than ourselves.