Approved member of ARTROM GALLERY GUILD - International Society of Artists and Designers.

Dear Asbjorn Lonvig,

The Staff at ARTROM Gallery has met to view your images. We have also visited your websites and entered immediately into your world. We are impressed with your ability to simplify a concept into an image and concentrate it, to incude only what is necessary. In evaluating your work for its strong graphic content, we became aware of the size of the originals; they are all quite large and are acrylic on canvas. In viewing your works we discussed not only their graphic content, but discussed them as paintings, as objects unto themselves. Knowing that the images exist somewhere as objects of that dimension is far different than looking at images stored in some computer, regardless of how they were created. One can appreciate the graphic illustrative/informative quality of an image on a computer screen, but it stops there, until you know more about the image as it exists in "real life", and this adds another dimension to the work. It also adds credibility to the commitment the artist has made to the image. We feel that you believe in your commitment as an artist. This is one of the aspects we look for in our GUILD Members. When one believes in himself the message is clear. We are also interested in your "Manifesto" below.

"It's about the fact that the art market is predicted to grow 3,5 times because of the Internet. It's about my decision to stake everything on the internet. It's about concentrating my efforts on the internet when it comes to sales. It's about my decision to make new standards and challenge art traditions by making my drafts on a computer and exhibit the drafts. And insist upon that a computer is nothing but a new tool. And insist upon that using a computer is as worthy as not doing it!!! Worthier????"

We would like to help you accomplish these things, and welcome you to become a Member of ARTROM Gallery GUILD.