Gallery and more at our Home

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Our home Harbaeks Courtyard (Harbæksgaard) has undergone exciting major renovations these past 6 months. Ever since we purchased it in 2008 in the the beautiful countryside of Skovby situated on the south Jutland island of Als in Denmark , we always dreamed we would one day be able to convert our barns into a large gallery space. This has been accomplished slowly over the past 10 years. Now we have 700 square meters of gallery. And an exciting addition is our little concert hall and cosy bar. This means we can now host various events.

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The Little Concert House

We proudly open our doors to showcase our new gallery rooms tomorrow at 2pm-6pm. And again this coming weekend Saturday and Sunday 12pm-4pm. So come on by if you can.

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Our first two opening concerts with my husband, Thomas Eje performing have already occurred, the 3rd one will be on the 4th of August. Contact us for tickets: 2142 0006

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Exciting days ahead for us as we embark on this new adventure.

Katherine x

Beauty in art

Beauty in art isn’t dead. it’s just being ignored very loudly

You can’t really sensationalize beautiful art nowadays. Art has to provoke it seems. This is keeping up with times (or the Kardashians). There is an increasing coarseness in our celebrity-worship twitter, instagram, fb and snap chat society that only thrives on scandal and ugliness. Unfortunate, I guess. But then, the purest things in life often get bypassed by the loudest voices.

The walk

A royal portrait

Several years ago I painted this portrait of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. She later saw the painting and liked it, it now hangs in her private quarters in Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen.

The finished portrait
The finished portrait
Painting Princess Mary of Denmark portrait
Here I am in my studio working on the painting.
Princess Mary’s relaxed demeanor and obvious joy of pregnancy touched me. It inspired  me to paint her portrait from this photograph.
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Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen.

See my other portraits