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Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen is a self-taught fine artist best known for his contemporary interpretation of classic figurative painting. His subjects are often depicted in a dream or limbo-like state. Uldalen has described himself as an expressionist painter trapped in the body of a neoclassicist painter, while others have classified his work as photosurrealism.

For his second-ever outdoor mural, the artist approached the wall for the 2016 Nuart Festival wanting to convey a message of love and warmth in uncertain times, a tender message wrapped in his signature dark palette. The figures he paints have a melancholic aura and precarious beauty, and there is a deep sense of longing and loneliness permeating Uldalen’s work — whether on canvas or wall.