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Jana Danielsen
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Jana Danielsen was born in 1967 in St. Petersburg into a family of artists, and she relocated to Oslo in 1998, where she has built her practice ever since. Her path into art was not straightforward. Before focusing on visual work, she completed engineering and business studies in both Russia and Norway, and her formal art training came in scattered but deliberate stages: art school in St. Petersburg in the early 1980s, followed years later by courses at FriAkademiet in Oslo (free-hand drawing), creative painting at the art school in Nydalen, and classical portraiture and oil painting at Christiania FriAkademi between 2009 and 2010.
Although Danielsen is perhaps best known to the broader Norwegian public through winning the Kunstidol competition in 2008, an achievement that opened new exhibition doors, her printmaking practice has run quietly alongside her work in other media. Her graphic works, including lithographs on subjects ranging from mythological and fantastical imagery to more lyrical, nature-inflected themes, have circulated through Norwegian auction and sales channels under titles such as "Eventyr," "Festival," "Circus åpner dører," and "Japan." The lithograph "Circus åpner dører," for instance, was issued in a limited edition of 70 copies, which reflects a working method attentive to the conventions of original print editions.
In her painting practice, Danielsen developed a distinctive mixed-media technique using acrylic and sand applied in multiple layers, building up texture to create both three-dimensional visual effects and what she describes as a spiritual quality in the image. She works under a meditative process, often accompanied by ethnic music, drawing on inner energy as a compositional resource. The approach places her work somewhere between expressive figuration and abstraction, with recurring themes of dreams, meditation, and organic forms.
On the auction market, Danielsen's prints have appeared almost exclusively through Fineart in Oslo, Norway's largest art reseller. Her graphic works have sold at modest price points, with realized prices around 300 NOK for pieces such as "Eventyr" and "Festival." With 85 lots recorded at auction, all of them prints, her market profile is that of a secondary-market artist whose graphic editions reach buyers through a single specialist house rather than a broad auction circuit.