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Welcome to visit our studio in Pedro Lorca 130, Torrevieja
Summer exhibition
16/7-1/9-2025
Orion Righard
Ingrid Forfang

Presentation of some of the works:
With Wings – Original Painting by Orion Righard
With Wings is a striking and thought-provoking work of art that embodies Orion Righard's distinctive visual language – a blend of surrealism, symbolism, and raw emotion.
The solitary figure, crowned yet vulnerable, stands with dark wings stretched behind, evoking themes of power, fragility, and transformation. The contrast between strength and sensitivity invites the viewer to reflect on the dualities of human existence – authority versus humility, aspiration versus reality.
Created with mixed media on wood, this large-scale piece (120 × 150 cm) carries an extraordinary presence, making it a captivating centerpiece for any collection or interior space.
Details:
- Original artwork – one of a kind
- Size: 120 × 150 cm
- Technique: Painting, mixed media on wood
- Price: 4000 euro
- Certificate of Authenticity included

Favorithjärta (Favorite heart) – A Poetic Statement in Contemporary Art
Favorithjärta is more than an image – it is an emotion, a visual dialogue that lingers long after the first glance. Orion Righard, renowned for his evocative universe where strength and vulnerability intertwine, has created a piece that speaks directly to the heart.
With his distinctive style, graphic precision, and subtle sense of irony, Righard invites the viewer into a story that feels both personal and universal. The colors are balanced yet charged with emotion, and the composition holds a quiet drama that makes the eye hesitate to look away.
This is art for those seeking more than decoration – Favorithjärta is a work with poetic strength and visual clarity, carrying Righard's internationally recognized signature and artistic integrity.
Details:
DGA print (Digital Graphic Art)
Edition of 150 ex
Paper: Hahnemuhle William Turner 190gr
Papersize: 61 x 47 cm
Imagesize: 50 x 38 cm
Year: 2024
Signed and numbered by Orion Righard
Text and analysis made by ChatGPT
A lot of original works by Orion Righard and Ingrid Forfang are available.
Welcome into our world of art.

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Calo Carratalá



We are so proud to announce that the great Valencian artist Calo Carratalá will present his work at our next Open Studio in Torrevieja.
Almost every first Saturday in the month we invite a guest artist to present their art works in our studio, It is away for us to connect to artists that make us curious in one way or another, and to meet art lovers around us. We show our own work in process or finished works together with the invited artist of the month.
Calo was one of the artists who made the strongest impression on Orion among all the hundreds of artists that exhibited at the art fairs in Madrid this spring. Not only the technique and expression, but also the themes felt strongly connected to us as he in different series of work has used his impressions from places that are important in our lives, like Norwegian mountains and the beaches in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
We love the way that he approaches these themes and his expressive and emotional expression and we look forward to see how our works connect.
You are very welcome to meet us all three at the studio for a chat and a glass of wine, or just have a look at the art. Orion Righard and Ingrid Forfang Calle Pedro Lorca 130, Torrevieja, Spain
Saturday 3 december 2022, 16:00 - 19:00
Free entrance. Open for everyone
Link to the website of Calo Carratalá: https://calocarratala.com/
Magne Vagnsnes
Vangsnes is a fantastic esthetician. He has worked in the field of graphics for over 45 years and works, among other things, with what he calls sculptural graphics, which we find very exciting.
Orion became acquainted with Vangsnes when they printed graphics at the same lithography workshop in Barcelona. We fell head over heels for his art and it is therefore an honor to show it!






Link to the book: Without title by Magne Vangsens : https://issuu.com/skaldforlag/docs/issu_ferdig
Link to the Curriculum Vitae of Magne Vangsnes
Welcome to open studio in
Pedro Lorca 130 in Torrevieja every first Saturday a month!
Next opening: 1/10- 2022 16.00-19.00
Our goal is to meet other art lovers and have a fun and inspiring time together! If you want to visit our studio in Torrevieja at other times, you can call us +34621327167 or write an e-mail to info@askart.se to make an appointment.
Feel welcome!
NINA DREYER HENJUM
Many thanks to Nina Dreyer Henjum for a great exhibition full of powerful paintings!

About Nina:
Nina Dreyer Henjum is born in Norway, 1972. She is resident in Spain since 2021, near Alicante, where she has her own artstudio. Her first public decoration was at the age of 16, when she won an open art project competition in painting and textiles. Her first art exhibition came two years later. When moving to Paris for a three year art education at Les Beaux Arts, she fully focused on her art career. Her majors where in the fields of painting, art history and sculpture. In Norway she has studied under the artists Morten Paulsen, famous for his watercolor techniques, as well as the Swedish watercolor master-Arne Isacsson. She then was thought by Knut Tiberg in the arts of printing techniques refining her skills to perfection. Nina has consequently been represented in several private art collections around the world. She has attended symposiums and projects for Peace, exhibited in art galleries and museums in Paris, Firenze, Spain, New York, London, Norway, Finland, Palestine , Egypt and South Korea to mention a few. Under her career she has been consentrating at expressionist paintings, lithographs and sculpture forming an exploration of the human being in relation to different cultures, religions and the inner self. She often use several different medias in one painting by connecting the old techniques with the modern ones, thus creating a prolongment and symbolique of uniting cultures, religions, the old and the modern, the past and the future.
SAGA BARNHOLDT

We proudly presented our monthly guest. This time we invited the singer and songwriter
SAGA BARNHOLDT
to introduce us to her own music in an acoustic performance. It was magic!
Calo Carratalá

Even if we missed our guest artist Calo Carratalá, we had a fantastic open studio day thanks to the resturant La Mesa de Juan who came with canapes and drinks and to the audience who came anyway. Thank you!!
Here are some fotos from the event:
AEROVI AEROVI

She makes NFT and told us a lot about it! So interesting and powerful!
Discover her work on Instagram :
https://www.instagram.com/aerovi_aerovi/
Thank you Aerovi Aerovi!
The show must go on

The guest artist couldn´t come, but the doors to the studio were open anyway and there were some very pleasant hours with new acquaintances and conversations about everything possible in five different languages!




Marleen Van Ende
Her presentation;
I live in Spain for almost 13 years. I enjoy the weather, the sea, the campo, the clean air etc. But what always bothered me is the huge amount of trash everywhere. I just could not accept the sight of it. Instead of complaining about it I started to pick up waste, straws, bottles, all sorts of wrappings, cigarette butts, plastic bags etc... In the beginning I did it occasionally but for the last 6 years I have been going almost every day.I collect about 6 or 7 bags and take it to the appropriate bins, But every now and then I find funny things, colorful things or interesting things that I take home. I use those objects to make collages. I take pictures of it. Edit them on the computer, not the colors but the shape. I usually make a mirror image of it.The images are printed on aluminum via sublimation. I also have material printed on tiles. I edited these images as a fractal or kaleidoscope.
/Marleen Van Ende
5/3-2022 Eva Waitzfelder
Learn more about Eva Waitzfelder and her beautiful jewelry on her website: