Order and Dissolution
By Ole Lindboe
Editor of the magazine Kunst and author of a series of
art books.

When the abstract painting is really good it can soar like a butterfly in soft curves or in flickering twitches in the air in front of the spectator. Wonderfully incomprehen-sible and fathomless its flight is beyond any calculations – spontaneous playful and easy to behold.
The colours in themselves are an abstracation summoned to life by the light of the image.

And yet the abstract painting is a result of awareness. It is an expression of thought, feeling and will. The well-painted image lives somewhere between coincidence and necessity. But it is difficult to discover when it is one or the other. All we know is that it succeeds.

And so it is with Henriette Sonne’s paintings. They succeed because they soar even if we don’t completely understand their substans or their methods of living and breathing.
They have soul and feeling probably because we can feel the depth of attention and will behind them. Yet the spectator remains guessing what they are and where they are going.

They are mysterious, hard to label but still material. They are concrete in their composition but labyrinth like in their expression. They grow like a silent melodic movement. You are left with the feeling that should you turn your back for a second a new painting would have evolved. They are order and dissolution in one.

Henriette Sonne finds inspiration in nature. There is no doubt she is guided by her sense of the surrounding reality. She doesn’t invent but recreates and reflects. She engages the nuances of colour and searches their possibilities. These are paintings, which paradoxically incorporates lightness and weight.

There is music in her paintings and after a while you discover that certain compositions, patterns and fragments of melodies return over and over. Henriette Sonne has reached an expression, which is determined and spontaneous all at once. It appears as if she as an artist is balancing between the organized and the immediate. Perhaps this is why her images possess a strange reality – as if they own their own sense of consciousness.

Her paintings are maps from a place, which does not exist. They are poetic in shape – memos from a place between structure and dissolution.They are an invitation to join the artist in the world of grammar, which is the foundation underneath any abstract painting.
Henriette Sonne has invited us on a beautiful and sensuous journey – an invitation no one should decline.