Portrait Now 2023

´Man 0n rails´ is a portrait of Christian Vinge, who was an engine driver for 19 years, operating a smallrailroad  for tourists that was formerly used for transport peat briquettes to a factory barn. He retired 2022, 70 years old. Mr Vinge originally trained as a banker. After the advent of computer technology revolutionised the bank sector and many branches were cLosed, he decided to live a life without computers, and got job at a local museum, Stenvad Mosebrugs Center by tourism, history and craft. The woodcut is done on MDF, inspired by the old German and Dutch masters Dürer, Van Leyden and Goltzius. Paralel black and white lines with variable thickness create impressions of light and shadows, textures and forms. The head and hands are decipted with a broader knife to visualize a contrast to the rest of the clothed body. Vidar Håkon Utvik arrived in Denmark from Norway in 1976 to study at the Acadeny of Art. He subsequently studied four years at trhe Jutland Art Academy, specializing in painting and printmaking.https://portraitnow.org/