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We have just returned from the Hurtigruten voyage in Norway from Bergen to Kirkenes at the Russian border above the Arctic Circle. We visited many ports en route including Trondheim, Tromso, Alesund and the Lofoten Islands. We were able to do lots of sketches and take photographs of the superb fiords and snow covered mountain scenery which has given us lots of inspiration for new works.

On the return journey we took the train from Bergen to Oslo through spectacular mountain scenery. In both Bergen and Oslo we visited several Art Galleries seeing mainly Norwegian artists – Edvard Munch , Nikolai Astrup ,Harald Sohlberg and many others. In Oslo at the National Gallery there was also an exhibition of Canadian painters, “Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven”, of the early 20th. century who had been inspired by Norwegian artists of the period.