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Name: Georg Gudni
Birthplace: Reykjavík, Iceland
Birthdate: January 1, 1961
Sign: Capricorn
Education: Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavík;
Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Holland
Materials: oil on canvas
Where you can find his work in Iceland: The National Gallery, The Municipal Art Museum, The Icelandic
University Collection, and The Kópavogur Museum
Where you can find him: working on his house in Ellidaárdalur
What he’ll tell you: “Landscape painting is created slowly. You don’t know where you’re going...it has to
develop. A painting may start with a valley and end with a mountain.”
Think: landscape, imagination, evolution
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