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Connie Maxwell Nørgaard

Connie Maxwell Nørgaard’s paintings we immediately discover the ambiguous content. On the one hand her paintings are full of light and cheerful colors, expressing the innocent and the childlike. But on the other hand we are at the same time aware that there is more to the paintings than that. There is something sinister; there are accidents and broken bodies. We are drawn into a sense of catastrophe. But we cannot rest the eyes on the sad fates of these figures, because in the paintings we also see a lot of small animals trying to alleviate the disasters by helping to patch up the broken bodies.
We are clearly met with the fact that what is broken can be mended.

Connie Maxwell  tells: “Most of my oil paintings and watercolors are actually drawings depicting crucial moments. Something tragic, which is funny and beautiful because it is human. The figures in my paintings know themselves that they are in a pickle which demands their full concentration to avoid a “scandal”. They live dangerous lives, but enjoy seconds of vigilant presence. A moment of pleasure can save their lives and a single puff can blow them into death. But then they just rise again from the dead with new wounds. They are tragic-happy re-runs”.