This is the first time Jorunn Mulen has shown with Badcocks. A young artist, originally from Norway, she recently graduated from Falmouth College of Art with a Master of Arts in illustration. We were so impressed with the work she produced at Falmouth, that we immediately offered her a show. Her work is intriguing, and draws you into its mysterious stories. Clearly a fresh new talent in the making, we love these thoughtful, deeply personal, yet beautiful paintings.

Jorunn speaks about her work:

"Through recognizing the traces left by experience that we use to create a persona, I compose my stories. They have a mixture of reality and imagination but also a significant truth which allows them to evoke and intrigue the viewer.
My stories become ballads in various forms, sometimes in the shape of a book.
They are about finding someone or something within the pages. Essentially they are about finding the way home within yourself.
Sometimes I work with text, aiming to set words in motion. When the words become alive they allow the image to tell a different layer of the story.
When making the journey towards an open horizon or towards what creates a sense of calm beauty inside, in recognizing the poetic and the simple, I find the foundations for my stories.
My work has a raw and pure quality as well as it lets a fragile and tender beauty shine through it, like the way a child perceives the world.
Together these fragments of intuitive approaches to expressing life, take place when searching for a way that will inevitably lead me home."

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