Gudrun Kristjánsdóttir studied art in the seventies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Aix en Provence in southern France. In France she got to know the disciplined technique of oil painting that has been her major choice of medium through the years, even though success has been apparent in other medium, especially in recent years when Gudrun has been working with the digital video.

In her work Gudrun has been consistently moving within nature. Making expeditions from mountain to mountain. At first her view was from afar, mountains far away, basking in the glow of the delicate light that appears at the horizon where earth meets the sky. Only with fine skill and craft can the light be so delicate and the horizon so hipnotizing.

While moving back and forth between mountains and shores, Gudrun also moves from the figurative to the abstract using color and forms to create depth and movement on the canvas.

Through the years Gudrun has been researching how the weather leaves its writing on the earth. She calles this weather writing and is working on this theme both in her paintings, her videos and in her photograps. She explores the white forms of the snow in a dynamic, tense relationship with the dark sward of the mountain.

In her videos she explores details of nature, still working with dark mountains, passing fog, melting ice, moving rivers, reminding the viewers of their ever changing lives. When working with the digital video, she uses the same precision as she does while painting, only the methods are more technical, the digital video camera, the computer and the digital drawing board.

Gudrun has had several collective and private exhibitions in Europe and U.S.A. for the past 20 years. Her most recent exhibitions have been at the Gallery 100° in Reykjavík and at Luise Ross Gallery in New York, both in 2005. Upcoming events include the exhibition Traces at the National Museum of Iceland in 2006.