Yngve Henriksen’s pictures are about the landscape he lives and works in.

The Lofoten archipelago has always been his source of inspiration. In his paintings, he processes his impressions and experiences. The paintings become his present, his stories and his memories.

Henriksen looks for poetry in everyday life and in the landscape. He experiences the landscape as powerful, both physically and mentally. The landscape manifests itself in different ways for everyone, based on their own experiences, but at the same time it is the same landscape we all live in. Each of the paintings in the exhibition has its own story, but the viewer sees and experiences them based on their own memories and references.

Henriksen's visual language lies in a borderland between figuration and abstraction. He approaches painting in different ways. His paintings can be based on sketches, but they can also be spontaneous. These different paths lead to different processes and results. Henriksen's artistic expression processes landscapes and a lived life. The fact that a work of art is made by a hand and a temperament means something to him. Especially in a time with so much digital focus.

Yngve Henriksen (b. 1965, Svolvær) lives and works based in Lofoten. He was educated at the Art School in Kabelvåg 1983–86, and at Bergen Academy of Art and Design 1988–90. Henriksen debuted at Galleri Boj / Stockholm in 1990, and has since been an active exhibitor in the Norwegian art scene. He has primarily worked with solo exhibitions and public commissions.

Recent solo exhibitions include Galleri Helle Knudsen / Stockholm 2023, Galleri Briskeby / Oslo 2022, Galleri Langegården / Bergen 2022, Galleri G Guddal, Rosendal 2021, and KHÅK Kunsthall / Ålesund 2019.

Since 1990, Henriksen's art has been acquired by private, municipal, county and public collections in Norway and Sweden. These include Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, DNB Kunstsamling, Nordea Kunstsamling, NRK, HM Dronning Sonjas Kunstsamling, Norsk Kulturråd, Universitetet i Tromsø, Sysselmannskontoret Svalbard, Statens Konstråd Sverige, Värmlands Museum, SVT Sveriges Television, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, Svolvær Faste Galleri, Nordlandssykehuset Bodø, KORO Region Nordhordaland Helsehus, and Universitetssykehuset Tromsø.