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Gunn Astrid is a visual artist.
She studied graphic design; a BFA, at Parsons School of Design in New York, and lived there for almost five years before she went back to Norway to work as a designer at Porsgrund Porselænsfabrik, a porcelain factory established in 1884. She has a long career as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. She now lives and works in Tromsø.
Gunn Astrid works with abstract painting, bold and expressive style. She uses mainly a mixted tecnique – of oil, acrylic and oilpastels. She also works with graphic prints using printing tecniques such as monotypi, linocut and woodprint.
Through the influence from the surrounding nature and the human surroundings, she search to express herself. She is impacted by close peoples movements, connections, objects, environment, and a nature in constantly change. A task with a work process where there is a sincere need to express, to question, to provoke and to engage.



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