Tone Aaness

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Tone Aaness is a Norwegian contemporary painter, b. 1973. She has exhibited in Norway and in Europe, and has been selected for several Biennales. She has participated in Group and Solo exhibitions throughout the Country. She is also a performing artist with experience from Concert Halls, open town Ceremonies, Ateliers, Galleries and Museums.      

In 1999 a strange experience of seeing two paintings not being able to paint them, brought her to Figurative Paint. She stayed in a studio with Norwegian figurative painter Tor Kvarv (in the National Gallery of Norways Collection) part time for the next five years. There she worked with pencil, drawing from nature and painted in Old Renaissance Techniques. She also sculpted in plaster.    

In 2003 she attended The Angel Academy of Art in Florence and completed the Drawing Program. She continued to paint in a Studio in the same city under painter and literature professor Rebecca Harp. Later she has attended courses at Florence Academy of Art in Florence and Gothenburg under brilliant masters such as Hege Haugen (former director of Florence Academy of Art Gothenburg and pupil of Odd Nerdrum), Andreas Birath (present director of Florence Academy of Art Gothenburg), Jordan Sokhol (former director of Florence Academy New York and Eran Webber (director of Florence Academy of Art Florence).  

The works are mainly philosophical, political and mythological in their Expression and a Depth to Contemporary Realism is maintained and influenced by painters such as the French realist Courbet, the Catalan born modernist Picasso, the Italian chiaro-scuro painter Caravaggio, the English Prerafaelite Millais, the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch and the monumental Sculptor Gustav Vigeland among others.