Per Adolfsen
Featured Artist
Volume One, Issue Three, “Plein Air,” Visual Art
Per Adolfsen draws landscapes within walking distance from where he lives. Shrubs, stubble fields, grasslands, and the edges of the wood. These places are often overlooked. They do not seem important. But Per has a special eye for the uniqueness of these seemingly ordinary places, and he draws out these individualities either by unusual composition, for example by drawing a bush hiding behind a hillside, or by drawing very little, holding himself back, thereby allowing the emptiness of the paper to direct our attention to the most important lines in the landscapes before him. Ultimately, Per’s landscape drawings represent a new romantic movement made in the wake of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
— Dr. Theis Vallø Madsen
Per Adolfsen, After Rain, 2020, Colored pencil and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, Empty Beach, 2020, Colored pencil and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, The Big Tree in the Kindergarten, 2020, Colored pencil and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, Path Behind the Lake, 2020, Colored pencil, chalk, and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, Small Misplaced Tree, 2020, Colored pencil and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, Sunset, 2020, Colored pencil, chalk, and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, The Bird Tree, 2020, Colored pencil, chalk, and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, The Beach, 2020, Colored pencil, chalk, and graphite on paper.
Per Adolfsen, Broken Tree in a Pine Forest, 2020, Pencil on paper.
Per Adolfsen is an artist based in Odense, Denmark.