"I grew up in a house where more or less everything was orange with BIG orange flowers - that also included my mother…"

Gunnlaug went to Britain 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, Young Blood 2000, for her final project.

Her first job after graduation was a regular job as an illustrator for one of Norway’s leading national newspapers, Dagbladet. They given her 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 and distinctive line in the work. She has also illustrated for The Guardian and Financial Times.

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

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. And the plan is to develope this side of her work further.

Gunnlaug also works as Graphic and Web designer, and also has education in photography, visual communication, animation, drawing and graphic design. In 2005 Gunnlaug moved back to her birthland Norway after almost 10 years in England. In Britain she lived in Bristol. In Norway she live just outside Drammen, one hour drive from Oslo, with er husband and two children.

Way of working :
Gunnlaug work in a mix of old and new methods. Her drawings are drawn with dipp pen and ink. She scan in the original drawing and colors it in on the computer uses MacroMedia FreeHand (the older versions of the program has been the most sucessful). A method she devoplod during doing her degree and from working as an graphic designer.


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