The art project collaboration between the Danish Artists’ Association and the South Jutland Roadside Churches is based on my art project “Creation”.
The figurative is at the centre. Over the years, I have worked in a circular process based on sketches and works that explore motif, method, and the sustaining force in the repetition of motifs and figures. I continue my long-standing focus on the human being as a shaping, acting, and transformative figure, placed within a new context and narrative.
I explore strength and vulnerability in human expression. In the art project “Creation”, this focus is moved into the church space. The project consists of a tribute to Anne Marie Carl Nielsen and Queen Dagmar, five saint images, and a sculpture. The works enter into a dialogue with the site’s architecture, materiality, and cultural-historical significance.
The project’s necessity lies in its exploration of humanity’s creative potential in a time marked by change. It raises questions about how we understand ourselves in relation to history and community, and how new insights can arise in the encounter between spaces of the past and contemporary artistic practice. By working within the church space, contemporary art is brought into dialogue with a broader public and with a place that traditionally holds existential reflections.
The exhibition is publicly accessible and forms part of the roadside churches.
The collaboration between the Danish Artists’ Association and the South Jutland Roadside Churches anchors the project in both a professional artistic environment and a well-established public platform.
In my work, there has been a consistent common thread in the thought and feeling of painting with equal parts hope, courage, and presence for and about people—for people. From heart to heart. My works are intended to provide insight and understanding of my fellow human beings and myself.
The idea of hope, peace, and thinking of and cherishing what one holds dear is a recurring theme in my works. I work with different supports of canvas, light, figures, and defined and flowing layers.
Anne-Marie Carl Nielsen had a lifelong artistic practice that cannot fail to impress anyone who crosses her path. She is and remains one of the greatest international sculptors of our time. She was married to Carl Nielsen, and the fact that they were both practising artists is a unique picture of a partnership for better and for worse, in which they both created great art and, in Carl Nielsen’s words, contributed to “the whole”.
I contributed my portrait to the whole of one of our great artists—Anne-Marie Carl Nielsen—in the art project WOMEN WHO CHANGE THE WORLD, which has existed since 2015.
“She came with peace” is cast into the base of Anne-Marie Carl Nielsen’s sculpture of Queen Dagmar in Ribe. The dream and hope of a possible other world with peace have motivated me to create a painting of the sculpture, which is now part of this exhibition at Zion Church. I am especially pleased that it has a place in Esbjerg Harbour Church until 1 October and can contribute to the whole with all the symbols found in this image.
This exhibition is for women and men who wish to change the world. To act consciously from that place, with kindness and consideration for one another and Mother Earth.
Welcome to Art in the Roadside Churches from 1 May to 1 October 2026
