Tor-Arne Moen painting birches

During spring 2024 I spent some time painting birch trees. This is a small film from the process. *** The film is an “artist in studio“ attempt to show most of the process painting a large scale painting. The artist thoughts on this series of birch trees: “I have to admit that I rarely understand what the topics for my exhibitions are really about until all the works for the exhibition are finished. If I go in a new direction thematically and painterly, I don’t always know why (apart from the fact that I probably feel quite finished painting with the previous theme for a while). As I see this collection of my new paintings, they are probably about the nature around us and human domestication of it. Like the chainsaws on the pedestals are called: “Tredreper“ (“Tree killer“) I, II and III. In these paintings the birches roots don’t show, nor the treetops. They are seen in section straight from the side, as in an exhibition. Behind th