INGUNN MILLA JOERGENSEN

August 5 – 30

Gallery at the Grand

1 Chase Hill Rd. Kennebunk, Maine 04043

When we asked local artist Ingunn Milla Joergensen about the inspiration behind specific pieces she created for her 2023 Solo Summer Show, she shared insights we wanted to share.

On florals…

“When I don’t paint, I garden. I probably garden more than I paint,” laughs Joergensen. “Plants, trees, flowers are the core of my existence. I decided it was time to merge these two passions. These little ones of geraniums are from my greenhouse.”

“Maine is beautiful and resilient, stoic, and maybe a bit of an introvert. Her seasons and landscapes are rhythms in a poem.”

big house,

little house,

back house,

barn…

On a Meadow

“From a young age, I have been obsessed with meadows,” shares Joergensen. “From an open field filled with grasses and flowers fluttering in the warm wind to the morning mist or even the afternoon sunshine, these flowers were my earliest friends.”

A bit of poetic inspiration.

A Dawn

Without  a sound, night slips away,

And day begins spreading across the sky in the East…..

overhead, a last dim star

drops down to fall asleep in the hair of a tall tree.

~Bert Meyer, 1947

On Fragments

“I find that beauty often lies within the unfinished, the fragments, the hints…a space where there is still room to wonder and imagine…”

On Golden Days… 

A certain calmness

in the atmosphere

Like a grasp of air

before a first kiss

~ Ali, from the poem As the Sun Wakes

“I think Mary Oliver sums up my life as an artist,” says Joergensen.

Instructions for living a life…

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.       

                ~ Mary Oliver, from the poem Sometimes

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