RUDKØBING, LANGELAND

Henriette Lorentz har afgang fra Århus Kunstakademi i 1974. Hun gennemførte desuden designuddannelsen fra Margretheskolen i København i 1977.

Hun havde i årene 1977-82 egen designvirksomhed og produktion af børnetøj. 1982-93 arbejdede hun som freelance designer i Danmark og hele Europa med opgaver som tegning og prints, farver og kompositioner og diverse designopgaver. Fra 1993 til 2005 havde kunstneren detailbutik med dametøj i København. Alt i eget design. Fra år 2000 genoptages seriøst arbejdet med at male billeder. I 2006 forlader hun det liberale erhverv og koncentrerer sig 100 procent om at male.

Hendes billedunivers er ofte befolket af personificerede dyr med underfundige blikke. En del motiver giver associationer til teaterverdenen med aktører i fantasifulde kostumer. Humor er en vigtig del af kunstnerens udsagn.

Kunstneren arbejder med sprøde farveklange, der i markerede farveglimt gløder intenst. Billederne opbygges af op til 20 lag acrylmaling. Farverne blandes på lærredet. I de senere år har lærredet dannet grund for et lag papir først. Papir og de mange lag maling giver billedet en udpræget stoflighed.

Henriette Lorentz graduated from Aarhus Art Academy in 1974. She also completed the design programme at Margretheskolen in Copenhagen in 1977.

From 1977-82 she had her own design company and production of children’s clothing. From 1982-93 she worked as a freelance designer in Denmark and throughout Europe with tasks such as drawing and prints, colours and compositions and various design tasks. From 1993 to 2005, the artist ran a women’s clothing retail shop in Copenhagen. All in his own design. From 2000, she resumed serious work with painting pictures. In 2006, she left the liberal profession and concentrated 100 per cent on painting.

Her pictorial universe is often populated by personified animals with subtle glances. Some motifs are reminiscent of the theatre world with actors in imaginative costumes. Humour is an important part of the artist’s statement.

The artist works with crisp colour tones that glow intensely in distinct flashes of colour. The images are built up from up to 20 layers of acrylic paint. The colours are mixed on the canvas. In recent years, the canvas has formed the basis for a layer of paper first. Paper and the many layers of paint give the image a distinct textural quality.