Kat Art Studios Rjukan

My residence in Rjukan has been set up as an artist retreat offering a series of shared work spaces, studios, workshops, guest bedrooms and living space. As we enjoy sharing our space with others please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like us to facilitate / host your next creative event.

I occasionally also open up my studios to my local community, inviting people to join me in some creative fun. Follow @katartstudiosrjukan on Instagram to keep up to date with the latest happenings.

Kat Art Retreats:

My signature workshop 3-4 day retreat takes place in my studios, Located in the UNESCO world Heritage town of Rjukan. With the stunning Hardangervidda National (mountain) Park as our backdrop, we will work both in the studios and outdoors, creating a laboratory for experimentation, play, reflection and fun. A space for spontaneous, non-judgemental creative self-expression. 

I invite you on a creative journey where you will be encouraged to explore the sensory nature of art and authentic expression. Experience the feeling of pure bliss while you learn to surrender yourself to your creative process with joyful abandonment, allowing yourself the freedom to just be. 

Our focus will be on loosening up, tuning into all our senses, releasing expectations and welcoming creative expression back into our daily lives. There is no requirement for previous drawing or painting experience.

I offer my KAT signature workshops throughout the year by request.

Min 4 to Max 8 participants.

‘Kat Walks’

‘KAT walks’ are set up as a creative experience where you will be active participants. 

I offer ‘KAT Walks’ throughout the year by appointment to groups of friends / colleagues. If you would like an experience tailored to your group, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Language: English and or Norwegian.

Kat Walk: An Alternative Way To See And Understand Place:

I invite you on an exploration of the UNESCO World Heritage town of Rjukan where I will combine my knowledge of architecture and understanding of place with my love of art. 

We begin our journey in ‘Adminiparken’ (Admini Park) where I share my personal approach to seeing and understanding place as both an artist and architect. 

As we start to explore the town together, we will be Interacting with both the solidity and fragility of the monumental architecture and the surrounding nature. Using movement, light, shadow, form, colour, texture as our drawing materials, I will guide us in ways of how we can use art to explore the changes the town is continuously undergoing.

During our walk I also share a little of the history of the individual buildings and Rjukan. 

Kat Walk: A Sensory Wandering In Nature

I invite on a creative journey. A sensory wandering out into nature and into your inner world.

We begin our journey in the studios, where I will share with you my personal approach to drawing as a way of encountering the world. We will explore notions of how to use drawing to record the experiential rather than the visual. 

We will then move outdoors. With the UNESCO World Heritage town of Rjukan and Hardangervidda National Mountain Park as our backdrop we continue our meanderings fully immersed and present in our environment.  

Using sound, light, shadow and movement as our focus and experimental drawing as our tool to raise awareness about ourselves, we use art to explore nature’s transient moments and how they affect us over time. 

No previous drawing experience is necessary.