Skyline Reykjavik.

When you walk by the sea in Reykjavik, there are mostly two things that you or I could call mysterious mountains, at a distance, imagine something, and though I've gone up on both of them, it does not explain the mystery, on the contrary, it does everything more complicated.

 Snæfellsjökull at dusk.

Snæfellsjökull at noon.

Keilir the Icelandic pyramid.

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Fána í litunum.  Olía á striga. 65x45 cm
In flag colors.  Oil on canvas. 65x45 cm

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Spring is watercolor.

Some times they say that there is no spring in Iceland, of course it is not correct, but sometimes it is hard to know if it is coming or going away. There fore, it is good to pick up watercolors in the spring, but they can also be a little unpredictable, but it is often called creativity if everything is going its own way.

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About Daði or Dadilisto

Daði Guðbjörnsson

Alter ego DADILISTO

I was born in Reykjavik: May 12, 1954. Grow up Kópavogur close to Reykavik, which was mostly built by refugees, who were not allocated land in Reykjavík for political reasons. Good time for children to play in half builded houses, or go to a small shelter and listen to the communist.
When I was 12 y.o. I decided to become a painter and, as my father resisted, it would not turn back.
After I have learnd Carpentry to make my father happy, I went to The school of Arts and Crafts, and ended up learning experimental art and new art media, I could take all the risks, I had lernd very practical profession to be able to make a living. I did not get started with creating so called “New media”, but began do painting with the good old oil colours. I was a part of movement in the eighties called “New Painting”. I then studied in Amsterdam for a year, mostly of graphic printing, but that time was a great gift for me, since I started working as a professional and have done so mostly since 1983.
I’ve been very lucky! I was one of the first to do, so called “New Panting” in Iceland, this promotion drew attention and I started selling my art works and could make a living in a decent life, all the time until the lucky famous “collapse” of the banks in Ieland, but at that time people mostly have to use their money in pay-as-you-go debt created by our economic system in Iceland, probably one of the worst in the world.
After that crash, I have been doing some extra work: teaching, city walk with tourist and so on, I have alsow been having pepole visiting my studio with some home-made food. But also received a grants.gov support forbig exhibition in Art museum: Kjarvalsadir in 2011. This period has been nice, always good to get new challenges especially if one manages to take advantage of them. I recently had an exhibition of Mokka Kaffi in Reykjavik hat was successful.
I have been doing Sahajayoga for many years and have volunteered to teach and introduce.

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This is a pastel drawing, probably since 1973.

This is a selfportrait as Iceland in the end of the period that I would call “The New Painting”

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An example of my new paintings.

The summers first day in Iceland.

The summers first day, is one of the festival days in Iceland. However, it is usually not possible to see that the summer is on, but you can try to piture pictures with a fake date.

Or put the porridge in the festive season.

 From Thingvellir.

From Thingvellir.

Porridge in summer mood

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The spring has come.

The spring has come to us, here at the end of the world, we have pulled out the cooking grill.
Good to start grillnseason with trout and couscous salad.
It's cold we have to eat inside, but only about 10-15 that you can eat outside  every summer.

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From my exhibition at Mokka Kaffi Reykjaik