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My name is Pia Ranslet. I am a painter and sculptor.
I would like to show my Art here and at the same time make contact to people who bought pictures from me during all the years I exhibited.
It is my hope that the owners will send
photographs of the paintings they purchased, so I can get all of
the works categorized.
Some of the pictures which I upload here are for sale. I also paint portraits on commission.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Sketches


I sketch much  but never use the sketches for paintings
They just get piled and forgotten , but some are not bad so I thought
to show a few of them here. Some sketchbooks I gave away
 forgetting to take photos of the sketches in them.
If any of you still have this small books of mine, please scan the content and send me.



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Wood
Pencil drawing






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Danish Wood
Pencil on Paper








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Clouds  over fields on Bornholm
Pastell on Paper








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Bohuslen
Oil on Canvas








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Blue Hour on the north of Bornholm
Watercolour on Paper









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Cows in midday light
Pastell on Paper

I love cows, the smell of them and their heavy calmness, love the sound of the flies summing around them and their constant chewing. They are kind animals. And so patiently still, always willing so be painted. Each is an individual with a different character and different behavior.
 I think the life on Bornholm was as close as one could get to Paradise.  
Now with economical bad times it is no longer possible to survive with a small farm and 14 cows who all know their  name and love their place in the stable and wait for the daily nice brushing.  Farms have become factories.Cows have only numbers and weight, age or milk quotas they have to reach to be profitable. No time for the individual animal.They don't get sick any longer so filled up with Antibiotics. 
How do they feel in, their complicated stomachs from so much antibiotics? I know how I feel after 10 days of penicillin. AWFUL! 
Open big stables without windows with full light on the whole night so noisy from 400-4000 animals, how can they sleep?  I pity them, this is inhumane. I guess it is as close to Hell as possible for them.








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Cows in afternoon light
Pastel on Paper









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Staring cows
Pencil on Paper










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"Cows grassing"
Oil on Canvas











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The Pole, Svolvaer Norway
Pastell on Paper




There is a nice artist house in Svolvaer in the North of Norway. Artists can seek to get 
a period of time there, The house has nice workshops big kitchen and a small rowing boat so 
one can catch a fresh Codfish  for the meal.   I went there once. 
Found it hard to capture the sizes of the mountains. There were bikes for the artists use ,and I biked around. But to get around or just pass one single mountain I had to bike one or two full days. It seemed like all my movements became slow motioned compared to the size of the mountains. 2 hours heavy wheeling and still the exact same view as if I had not moved a centimeter.  Should have sketched on cartons 2 x 3 meters or 10 meter times 3 ,that would have given the unsteady feeling in the knees,and the a better feeling of the view. On an  island without mountains you are always having the feeling of control, it takes an hour at the most to get to a point in your horizon. But in Svolvaer just give up, you are no bigger than an insect and You'll never get to the horizon.




Landscapes







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The shadow in the cornfield









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In the cows  field










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Egyptian Farm houses on the other side of Luxor before the Valley of the Kings












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After the Rain









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Dust Rain










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Bornholm









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Olives and almonds
Benimatell Spain










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Afternoon on the North of Bornholm









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Dust Rain over Jons Kapel









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Burning the fields









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Pine trees








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Shadows
Spain









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Pinjos








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Spanish Landscape
(View from my parents garden)









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The cows at Staalegaard









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Evening 









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Hammer








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What the cows refuse to eat







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Wheat field with blue cornflowers
on Bornholm







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The ancient Elm from old Almegaard







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One day I went crazy with the colors
of old Almegaard








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My parents view
Benimatell Spain







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Evening light on Bornholm
Watercolor 






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Antsgrass in the meadow.










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A Green as green can be.
Oli on Canvas










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Evening
Acrylics on Canvas











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Harvest time
Acrylics on Canvas