TINSEL PAINTING:
” … The special tinsel technique was introduced in Renaissance Italy and later spread as a domestic craft among American women between 1850 and 1890. Eken became fascinated with the techniques during a visit to The Folk Art Museum in New York in 2012, and later introduced the medium in her practice. In minute detail she paints a reverse image on the back of a glass plate, leaves areas transparent and adds coloured, glittering tinsel. Then the subject is built up as layers in reverse order, working from the outside in. ” (Tekst by Henriette Noermark)

AFTERBEAT
Horsens Kunstmuseum 2018

RESISTANCE
V1 Gallery 2018

CAN
V1 Gallery

PRESS RELEASE
“…Eken has been working with tinsel painting for the past 5 years gradually challenging the often very refined finish of the tradition making space for a more gestural expression. Breaking the mold by translating the tools of the original male painter Jackson Pollock through an old feminine folk art tradition. The result is a series of radiant expressive works…”

Tinsel painting 2014