Merete Mowinckel

Artistic practice

Merete Mowinckel is a Norwegian visual artist based in Bergen, working across drawing, painting, photography, and digital composition.

Her works are built through an intuitive and meticulous layering process, where hundreds of visual fragments are brought together and refined until the image finds its inner equilibrium. She often describes this process as tuning the image — listening for resonance, balance, and presence.

Background and experience

With a Master’s degree from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and a professional background in nursing, including many years in palliative and geriatric care, Mowinckel’s artistic practice is deeply shaped by attentiveness to human vulnerability, transition, and meaning.

Themes and expression

Her works inhabit the threshold between inner and outer worlds. Through symbolic imagery, animal presences, human figures, and atmospheric landscapes, she explores memory, transformation, and the silent structures of emotional life.

Rather than offering fixed narratives, her images create space for recognition.

Intention

At the core of her practice lies a simple but profound intention: to create art and places that remind people to come home to themselves.

The gallery

Since 2020, she has run her independent gallery in Bergen, where her work is exhibited and collected internationally.