About The Artist
My landscapes spring from the enviroment of my youth in the West Fjords, and they consist in an attempt to create a world on the boundary of imagination and nature, thus they are an extension of my own mental world.
My subjects have long been concerned with water: first waterfalls, and later the sea where islands and boats float on the surface, or mountain slopes and spits stretch out into the ocean. The obsessive interest in water in my works relates to my fascination with its transience and transparency, and also has something to do with my fear of water. My works tells a tale of a joureny out into the world, where the sublime may be sensed in simplicity itself.
Guðbjörg Lind Jónsdóttir was born in Ísafjörður in 1961. She graduated from the Painters’ Department of the Icelandic Collage of Art and Crafts in 1985. Three years later, she obtained a degree in teaching from that same school. She lives and works both in Reykjavík and Thingeyri, which is a very a small town in the Westfjords of Iceland. Her art can be found in numerous collections, including that of the Reykjavík Art Museum, The Ísafjörður Art Museum, The University of Iceland’s Art Museum and in many public and private institutions.