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Carl-Henning Pedersen

Carl-Henning Pedersen is, next to Asger Jorn, one of the most outstanding Scandinavian members of the Cobragroup and his art greatly influenced most of the members. His poetic talent and particularly his appreciation of the expressive powers of colour inspired him to paint pictures of great dramatic beauty and originality.
Carl-Henning Pedersen is a painter of phantasy and fairy-tales. He leads us into his strange world of fable populated by strange beings, weird horses and birds that fly away into a red dawn or under a golden star - where distant towers and fairy palaces appear as visions in the sky or in the deep blue of the sea. Although the soul of his painting is to be found not in his figures but in the colours which magically illuminate his pictures. For him, colour is a mysterious, compelling force, a perpetual source of new discovery and delight. He is an artist for whom colour is poetry. Living most of the time in the French region of Burgundy with his second wife, the photographer Sidsel Ramson, he travels a lot between Molesmes and Copenhagen, and is, despite he passed the age of 92, still drawing his typical strange but poetical creatures when enjoying the view on the wide vineyards.