HareideART
About me and HareideART
Driven by curiosity and the joy of creating
There is something in me that needs to come out. It doesn’t always come out as words. Often it comes out as a picture.
When I begin, I don’t always know what it will become. It might be a mountain, light over water, or a mood I can’t quite name until the lines and colours have found it.
My name is Svein Ove Hareide, and HareideART has become the place where I gather and share the pictures I make.
I started painting seriously in January 2019, after a long career as an engineer in industry and later as a senior lecturer at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. I have no formal art education, and perhaps that is exactly why curiosity and exploration play such a big part in how I work.
I deliberately do not call myself an artist. To me, that title belongs to those who have earned it through education, training under others, or recognition from the art world. I have no such background: no art school, no mentor, and none of my pictures have been reviewed by artists or art institutions.
I am self-taught. I have learned everything I know by studying, analysing and trying to recreate what I see, combined with trial, error and practice over time. I choose my words carefully because I respect those who have actually done the work that the title of artist requires, and because I want to be honest about who I am and where I come from.
Even though I don’t call myself an artist, I still dare to call what I create my art. This is not a claim to artistic status. It is simply what I make: pictures that mean something to me, and hopefully also to the person who chooses to hang them on their wall.
I feel my way forward. Some things work, some are discarded, and now and then something appears that I hadn’t planned when I started.
Over the years I have spent many hours drawing and painting in Procreate on an iPad Pro. Little by little, I have found a style that feels like my own.
Much of my inspiration comes from Northern Norway: the landscape, the light, the people and places I have a connection to. I don’t necessarily try to show them the way a photograph would. Often it is the memories and the feeling of a place that I want to bring out.
I’m not sure I need to put a big label on what I do. I only know that I take great joy in making pictures, exploring new ways of expressing myself, and sharing some of them with others.
Painting and creating have become something I need, not just something I do. It gives me energy, joy and a sense of still growing, even now that I am retired. This is not a passing interest. I have decided that this is something I will keep doing for as long as I am able. So you can be sure that HareideART is not something I will put aside any time soon.
That is what HareideART means to me.
There is something in me that needs to come out. It doesn’t always come out as words. Often it comes out as a picture.
When I begin, I don’t always know what it will become. It might be a mountain, light over water, or a mood I can’t quite name until the lines and colours have found it.
My name is Svein Ove Hareide, and HareideART has become the place where I gather and share the pictures I make.
I started painting seriously in January 2019, after a long career as an engineer in industry and later as a senior lecturer at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. I have no formal art education, and perhaps that is exactly why curiosity and exploration play such a big part in how I work.
I deliberately do not call myself an artist. To me, that title belongs to those who have earned it through education, training under others, or recognition from the art world. I have no such background: no art school, no mentor, and none of my pictures have been reviewed by artists or art institutions.
I am self-taught. I have learned everything I know by studying, analysing and trying to recreate what I see, combined with trial, error and practice over time. I choose my words carefully because I respect those who have actually done the work that the title of artist requires, and because I want to be honest about who I am and where I come from.
Even though I don’t call myself an artist, I still dare to call what I create my art. This is not a claim to artistic status. It is simply what I make: pictures that mean something to me, and hopefully also to the person who chooses to hang them on their wall.
I feel my way forward. Some things work, some are discarded, and now and then something appears that I hadn’t planned when I started.
Over the years I have spent many hours drawing and painting in Procreate on an iPad Pro. Little by little, I have found a style that feels like my own.
Much of my inspiration comes from Northern Norway: the landscape, the light, the people and places I have a connection to. I don’t necessarily try to show them the way a photograph would. Often it is the memories and the feeling of a place that I want to bring out.
I’m not sure I need to put a big label on what I do. I only know that I take great joy in making pictures, exploring new ways of expressing myself, and sharing some of them with others.
Painting and creating have become something I need, not just something I do. It gives me energy, joy and a sense of still growing, even now that I am retired. This is not a passing interest. I have decided that this is something I will keep doing for as long as I am able. So you can be sure that HareideART is not something I will put aside any time soon.
That is what HareideART means to me.