Sossa Björnsdóttir (b. 1954 in Iceland).
Sossa was educated at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts (1979), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1984) and subsequently from Tufts University in Boston & School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, United States – from which she holds a Master's degree.
Sossa talks about her art and painting.
"I am interested in people.
People I know, people I meet on the street, people who are alone and socializing. I love to observe and try to put myself in different situations, make stories, fantasize and I try to see the comic in our appearance and interaction with each other.
I use primary colors and have expressed myself best with a (palette knife and oil, however, the brush was more present in the first years in the nineties in the United States.
The characters are not always so clear, and sometimes they can dissolve into the room and almost disappear into a blizzard of blue and white winter landscape or into a bank of yellow and red swell pool – which characterizes so many places in my "backyard" on the Reykjanes peninsula."
Sossa has exhibited in different countries such as China, the United States, Singapore, Portugal, Iceland and Denmark and she is represented in several public and private collections.
Sossa is a member of SIM – Icelandic Artists' Association.