Jone Ketil Rimestad

I paint because I love to. It also keeps me from going bananas in this world where I find myself on the outside of whatever side there is.
”And if my thought dreams could be seen, they probably put my head in a guillotine. But that’s all right, it s life and life only. ” Bob Dylan said that, and I agree.

To be an artist means for my part to live in a different world. To be estranged from most people. To work and breathe, eat and sleep with my paintings. They are my family, my life. It’s an ever lasting love story.

EDUCATION

School of Fine Arts, Stavanger, Norway
School of Graphic Design, Stavanger, Norway
National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway
Norwegian School for Teachers of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway

EXHIBITIONS

1977 Gallery 7, Oslo, Norway
1978 Gallery Prosess, Oslo, Norway
1979 Gallery Sodorp, Vinstra, Norway
1980 Gallery Chagall, Kragero, Norway
1982 Gallery Acanthus, Oslo, Norway
1983 Gallery Koloritten, Stavanger, Norway
1983 Gallery Belham, New York
1983 Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway
1984 Vestlandsutstillingen, Norway
1984 Hardangerutstillingen, Norway
1985 Ostlandsutstillingen, Norway
1986 Sandnes Kunstforening, Sandnes, Norway
1987 S.R. Bank, Naerbo
1988 Gallery Tyr, Asker, Norway
Gallery Hegdehaugsveien, Oslo, Norway
Mayfair Fine Art, London
1989
Det Norske Teater, Bergen, Norway
1990
Holm Gallery, London
1992
Gallery Roenland, Jevnaker, Norway

1993
Gallery Unique, Eidsvoll, Norway
Clodion Art Café, Oslo, Norway
1995
Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris
1997
Gallery Facets, M.A., USA
1998
The New York Public Library, New York
Susan Berke Fine Arts, New York
2005
Galleri Lokkebakken, Kragero, Norway
The Fusion Gallery, Altea, Spain

DECORATIVE WORKS
The Regional Hospital More og Romsdal, Norway
S.R. Bank, Naerbo, Norway
Assistant Artist of decorative works at the Fagerlia School, Alesund, Norway