Robert Selfors

Susan Wilson; The international ART Magazine

 

Deeply rooted in the icy mysteries of Northern Norway, Robert Selfors explores the hidden landscapes of ice and micro-cosmoses. His work not only reflects the region's nature; it speaks its language! 

While some artists reflect a landscape in their work, there are those who allow themselves to be shaped by the landscape itself - molded by its temperatures, silences, and fractures. Robert Selfors clearly belongs to the latter group. His art not only mirrors the Arctic; it emerges from its depths, shaped by the same forces that sculpt the landscape. In a time where contemporary art often leans 

towards spectacular effects, Selfors' practice insists on something far more demanding: attention, sincerity, and a form of perfection rooted in the raw, untouched Arctic nature.
 

 

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Angela Li; The Aatonau ART Magazine

Robert Selfors is a multidisciplinary creative force—part artist, part communicator, and entirely captivated by the act of making. Rather than positioning his work within a strict genre or movement, Selfors gravitates toward the interplay between representation and abstraction. His pieces hover at the intersection of the recognizable and the intuitive, often capturing the mood of a moment rather than its literal form.

This stylistic liminality—hovering between the seen and the felt—allows him to construct a distinctive visual language, one that refuses to box in interpretation. Titles are rarely assigned to his artworks; instead, he invites viewers to bring their own stories and emotions to the 

canvas, encouraging a highly personal engagement with each piece.

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Angela Li; The Aatonau ART Magazine
 

The Arctic landscape serves as both subject and co-author in Selfors’s practice. Whether through 

painting, drawing, or mixed-media compositions, his works channel the overwhelming scale, texture, 

and light of the far north. He does not replicate the terrain; rather, he translates its essence. 

The Northern light, frozen riverbanks, and biting wind—these are not just features of a place, 

but emotive forces that shape the contours of his artistic response. With camera in hand or canvas 

before him, Selfors moves fluidly across disciplines, using each medium to extract something 

different from the wilderness. His workspace could just as easily be a tent in the snow as a studio 

indoors, provided the Arctic light is present to ignite his intuition