About the artist

CV

EDUCATION
1972     Design studies at David Whitehead, Zimbabwe
1972-77  The School of Arts and Crafts.                  
1977     Studies in design, form and colour in Japan
1977-80  Works as a designer in India and Bolivia
1980-83  Works as a designer in Sydney, Australia
1987-98  Works as a designer in a danish company for the European market
1998-03  Works as a Design manager in the above company
1992 -   Starts painting seriously
1994     Starts exhibiting my paintings
1996-    Studio in Copenhagen
 

Profile.

I am a Danish visual artist and trained designer from The Royal Academy of Design in Copenhagen.

Although I’ve worked as a designer across the world, painting has always been my true language - a lifelong passion that began in childhood and has continued into a full-time artistic career.

For the past 20+ years, I’ve worked professionally as a painter, exhibiting and selling my works internationally. My abstract pieces are rooted in the natural world, inspired by landscapes, light, and poetic impressions. Each work aims to reflect the emotionel layers and dreamlike qualities af nature - not as it is, but as it feels.

My paintings have been acquired by the Danish High Court, The court in Odense, Danish embassies around the world and several Danish municipalities. Trey are also held in private collections across Europe, Asia, and North America.

WRITE UP

The advantage of Tove Skovlys construction is a higher degree of dynamics - a construction which should not surprise us, given that it is nearly 100 years ago, Picasso and Braque made art history at the other end by inventing the splintered multi-faceted Cubist worldwiev. After which nothing was the same as before. There is something special over Toves images. It is as we are thrown into the waves of a fantastic energy. Tove Skovlys paintings compel us to do away with our usual ways of looking at nature. We are surprised, both visually and physically - and isn't exactly the feeling of loosing our balance, we seek in art ? When we in a split second, can put a new pespective on life.
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by
Tom Jørgensen / Editor of The Art Newspaper and
Art rewiewer at Jyllands Posten