Gunnlaug Moen Hembery
In 2005 Gunnlaug moved back to Norway after 9 years in England.
She used to live in Bristol, England. In Norway she is based just outside Drammen, one hour drive from Oslo.

She went to Britain from Norway to study illustration, and has her degree from Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (University of Central England). She graduated with a First Class Degree in 2000, and won one of D&AD’s Student Awards for her final project.

Since 2000 she has been working twice a week for one of Norway’s leading national newspapers, Dagbladet. She has had the chance to develope her editorial illustration with no interferens from any Art Director or Editor, and because of this she is has developed her own voice in the work.

She has also illustrated for design companies and publishers in Norway, Britain and Sweden.
Her work has been exhibited in seperate and collective exhibitions. As an illustrator she is interested in all sorts of commissions of illustrations.

Gunnlaug also works as Graphic and Web designer, and also has education in photography, visual communication, animation, drawing and graphic design.

In 2004 she won a first price in a storybord competion arranged by Aardman and BBC Animation. She attended the Three Months Animation Course in Bristol the same year.

In 2007 she is moving into new studios in Vestfossen with 10 other artist. This is going to be place for exhibitions and a place to develope work. Together with an another illustrator and graphic designer she is setting up an printmakers studio, called PLYSJEN Art Prints.

Way of working :
Gunnlaug work in a mix of old and new methods. Her drawings are drawn with an oldfashioned dipp pen and fluid ink. She scan in the drawings and colors them with use of a computer.
She uses MacroMedia FreeHand (the older versions of the program has been the most sucessful). The method she developed during doing her degree.


Finanicial and business sponsors/support:
Design Space 2000 New Media (Birmingham)
Prince’s Trust (Birmingham and Bristol)
Rolls Royce (Bristol)