Art by Konni was founded with a vision to bring contemporary art to a wider audience. I believe that art has the power to inspire, to challenge, to heal and to transform, and I am committed to bringing the best and most innovative contemporary art to everyone..
I started drawing as soon as I could hold a crayon, starting out with the usual doodles and progressing to portraits, having my first shared show with adults at 10 years old.
I grew up in a small town in Northern Denmark surrounded by beautiful nature and ocean so it was very easy to find inspiration to draw. I won many drawing contests and was inspired to try paints.
I finished HH school and Make-up Artist academy and started to travel, my first stop was Oxford, England, I was so inspired by the architecture and art there, I could have lived in the national museum in London. My travels took me to the US and then Paris, I settled in Paris and Nice for about a year before coming back to the US again. France was what solidified art for me. After visiting the Louvre and the Picasso museum I was in love and decided to trade graphite pencils for more colorful and fluid paint as it made the art come alive.
I have never received any training in art, it is all self taught, I love to experiment with different mediums and different methods of applying paint. Lately my favorite is to paint large paintings with giant brushes and small paintings with palette knives. I love the unpredictability of the strokes as they are harder to control, it's a mixture of freedom, love and luck.
My goal is to draw people in and make them feel something: hate, love or inspiration doesn't really matter what as long as it invokes something in them, then my job is done.
I have been lucky enough to get featured in a few magazines such as Huffington Post and the Acrylic Artist Magazine and Pratique des Arts.
In 2016 I was honored to be featured by request at the Polition Art Exhibit in Los Angeles as well as in the TV series Criminal Minds.
You can find much of my art in private collections in Canada, USA and Europe.
Art by Konni