Haukur Halldórsson

Haukur Halldórsson a.k.a. "The Hawk" (born 1937) is an Icelandic painter and member of the Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið. His first exhibition was in Reykjavík in 1978, and since then in Europe, in China and in the USA.

His first exhibition was in Reykjavík 1978 and since then they have been nearly non-stop in all over the world. Haukur has for the past years traveled widely to examine art in China, various countries in Europe, and of course the US of A. In New Mexico he lived with the Navajo Indians, where he mastered the art of sand-casting.

He has always been interested in all kinds of art forms. On his website Haukur presents his version of the Viking myth of Asgard, Yggdrasil, The Tree of Live and the bewitching underworld. This selection of works from 1989 - 2001 shows his rare ability to combine disparate elements from the worlds of fantasy, myth and everyday experience in to magical haunting works.

Hawk's paintings often contain a jumble of dispraised objects - mysterious magical characters, fire spewing primeval titans, sections of peculiar structures, living skull, Viking ships in a strange surrounding, other present rearing horses or reclining nudes obviously based on classical models removed to an anomalous environments.

External links

* [http://www.vikingcircle.com/Gallery.aspx gallery of paintings]
* [http://www.vikingcircle.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=4 portrait]