Ragnhild Nes

Ragnhild Nes (b. 1993, Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian visual artist working primarily within painting, alongside drawing and sculpture. She studied at Leeds Arts University and Westerdals Oslo ACT.

Her practice unfolds through abstraction, where colour, form, light, and poetry are layered with influences from surroundings, mythology, and art historical references. Nes approaches painting as an intuitive dialogue, beginning with writing on the blank canvas. Words transform into compositions and a visual language of colour, sometimes buried beneath paint and later resurfacing through titles, poems, or embroidered sentences over thick layers of paint.  Shaped by an awareness of light, nature, and seasonal change in her Norwegian upbringing, her practice reflects a sensitivity to shifting atmospheric conditions where colour and light are constantly evolving. Her sculptural work extends this painterly logic into three-dimensional form, where pieces emerge as continuations of the canvas, exploring materials such as metal, wood, and ceramics.