Grete Hjorth-Johansen is Norwegian photographer based in London. Bridging the gap between photographic and painterly aesthetics, her work uses a vibrant colour palette of lighting to explore and describe the moods, emotions and atmospheres she experiences around her.
“Rather than documenting reality as it appears naturally, I aim to let my inner world spill its colours onto the surfaces of the simplest shapes, the mundane, the familiar. My approach is to forge an intimate connection with my subject matter, and in doing so revealing something previously hidden or overlooked. Using lighting as paint brushes, I aim to explore the shapes and textures of everything from vegetables to trees, turning them into otherworldly creatures and deities. While a sense of scale or natural context is lost, what is imagined takes over.”