HENRIK SAAR LIFE AND ART

My life is loaded with drama, chaos, accidents, disease, survival, love, adventurous trips and religious miracles. Now Look at my artworks: Layer on layer like experience on experience.

I am creating my life story in a cryptic art language. Some of it contains well known symbols, some of are self invented figurative or abstract elements. It does not really matter whether it is abstract or figurative.

The strange phenomenon in my case is, that my visual expression comes before things actually happen in my external reality. I do never paint or draw on memories. My vision is to express, what I do not yet understand, but know is real. What you understand, is up to you, and I`m happy not to dictate you, what to think.

I use only the same three primary oil-colors and black and white. During the past 10 years I have been working my new style: Thick texture and many transparent layer in pure colors on top of the texture is now typical for me. I mix my colors additive in transparency. This gives my paintings a very deep glow. During the process I scrape of a bit of the transparent paint with a scalpel to highlight the details of the texture.