Puce. Hotpink. Screaming yellow. Limegreen. Bloodred. Indigo.

No Bullshit. Straightforward delivery. Blood, sweat and tears. Life and death. Sex. Caresses and humanity. Portraits and philosophy. Science and super-galaxies on the prowl. Roland Barthes´detalis in unswept hair, the hand that caresses a bare shoulder, freckles. Film stills. Freaks. Teenage dreams. Boxing matches. Intimate Pop Art. Senses turnes out loud.

In person Henriette Brun´s large watercolours are direct snap-shots of all that occupies her visually in her everyday life. They are pure paintings of color, sensuality and beauty. Banal, yet attentive. Paintings without frills - direct, stimulating and intimate. Women of this new century full of drive, edginess, sexuality.
Feminine versus the masculine.

"It is late at night. Outside the wheels of a truck screech, inside my painters´mind is buzzing with thoughts of glamour, a certain mood, emotions worn on the sleeve. Your skin against mine. In the cellar the results from a days work lay in wait. They rest, yet in my mind they continue developing as my body restitutes after a long day. I dream together with the paintings. I can´t wait to get down to them in the morning in my robe to see what they look like."

The watercolour follows the trail from Albrecht Dürer´s naturalism to English Romantic landscape painting with Turner in the fore-front and onward towards Nolde and the works of the German Expressionists and Marlene Dumas watercolours.
Henriette Brun´s watercolours lie in extension of this historic trail yet appears in a new coupling of precise realism and a more abstract expressive brushstroke. Henriette Brun grew up in the Viborg area of Denmark. For her the moors are both melancholy and safe. She painted her first watercolour at Gray Heath some years ago and was sold to the media on the spot.