Born in Aalborg (DK), 1968
In 2003 I received Kaj K. Nørkjær scholarship at the Vendsyssel ArtMuseum in Hjørring.
In May 2008 I had the great pleasure and joy to see the "angel" in Ravnshøj stand. A 3-meter high sculpture made of corteenstål on a 2 meter high plinth, which is molded a time capsule that contains all the good wishes and thoughts from the citizens of Ravnshøj to the future!
In November 2009, I was chosen as the artist of the year at Løgumkloster Retreat.
In addition, I illustrated "Guds nåde og Jords glæde" by Poul Henning Fromsejer, Roskilde.
5 children's books are illustrated for Steen Publishing House.
October 2010 published the long awaited Angel/BibelBook "Spiller engle fodbold?" in cooperation with publisher Northern Wind Sæby. The text is written by Paul Geil, Silkeborg.
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The following articel is published by the Art Magazin Hrymfaxe, written by Eric Kaare, in 2006:
A return ticket to Noah
The ArtMagazin Hrymfaxe & Janusnyt Nr. 3, September, 2006
-on spacescrap and ladybirds
Few insects are loved by humans, and even fewer are allowed to walk on your finger. But ladybirds - those firm little red dots that seem to keep wandering on your hand forever, they are ok. They are messengers, the carriers of good wishes.
The ladybird lands on your finger, you tell it to fly off with all your good wishes, and finally it takes off on wings strong enough to carry the heavy burden of tasks which have to be fulfilled. The most important task - apart from the good wishes - must be to keep an open mind.
Ladybirds. The lady referred to is of course Our Lady Mary. And one of the people interested in ladybirds is also called Mary - or Marie, Anne Marie Johansen. She constantly sends thoughts with ladybirds up into the blue. From her base on earth - hangar and workshop in what used to be the shipyard of Frederikshavn she sends the spectators upwards, right into the sky and beyond, through the blue and out on the other side! Into the endless deep where we meet up with hosts of ladybirds to follow Noah´s ark and Mother Faith. And so we embark on a journey that will bring us still closer and, circulating, futher and futher on.
The take-off for these journeys through the air is a constant stream of objects and oil paintings with titles like "Neverending Journey", "Around the Moon", Noah´s Ark in a Heavenly Boat", "Orange Evening Walk Lying Down", "The Birds of Our Lady", "Sleeping Amanda" and "Blues of Heaven".
The objects, the physical springboards for the imagination, are put together with nails and screws. Those things are often found in the special goldmine known by the ignorant as scrap.
The result is a number of multiples, objects of which there have been made more than one, and sculptures which all carry the ringing fascination of the possibilities in the endless deep. They invite you on a journey in a space created by imagination, pulsating with intense life.
It seem as if we, the spectators, are presented with a row of snapshots of space travellers who are safely on their way. They are all filled with confidence concerning the outcome of the journey. Giraffes and chickens are sitting two by two in the spacecraft sorrounded by "Bumblehillbees" (Bumble Hill is the longest street of Aalborg, Anne Marie´s home town, and in her childhood it was a trial for her and her bicycle.) Ladybirds and a single snail haste with little speed, the snail having its own lifebuoy to make time last longer.
In the year of 2006 the space travellers in the Ark have got company. It is a motherly angel who safely and warmheartedly leads them all down and out along a milky way in full bloom, and the objects stand as "objects trouvés", or shall we say objects found, from a pregnant, forever generous nightblue starry sky.
written by
Eric Kaare,
Owner of the publishing firm Nordenvind in Sæby, Denmark.
Best regards
Anne Marie Johansen
Painter, sculptor and illustator.
Please contact me for futher information! Next exhibition or if you will like to hear more about my work!
Illustration from the book "Spiller engle fodbold?"
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