The work of Bjarne Werner consists primarily of painting and prints, and his works are clearly steeped in abstract formalist painting traditions. The works are stressing movement and contrast with gesturally applied colors and forms that make for energetic compositions. Some of the works are almost like cartographic views of land and sea imprinted with a variety of natural phenomena, such as patchy clouds and craggy peaks. And in other works the tangled webs of lines and convoluted planes that cover the canvas represents inner forces of nature that are only partially revealed in a observable landscape. The range of compositions found in his complex print installations also underscores his passion for system and arrangement.

Even though the organic substance he releases onto the canvas appears Nordic and dramatic on the outside, the nature of his work is not only Nordic. There is a taste of the world that has a complexity beyond graphic simplicity.

He grew up in Syria, Lebanon and then north of Copenhagen. And he spent a good part of his formative years shuttling back and forth between Faroe Islands where his mother was born (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Norway) and Copenhagen where his father was born, and has made the country-city duality of this aspect of his life a defining motif of his art. His parents moved from Denmark to Iran in 1975 where their son would visit them. In 1979 they returned to their homeland before moving to Thailand, where they lived from 1982 to 1986, and he spent six months in Thailand in spring 1986.

Although he resides in Denmark, for many years he has also played an active role in the Faroese art scene: for example as an organiser and curator of a number of exhibitions and workshops. He is also a member of the faroese exhibition group, Heystframsýningin that held annual exhibitions from 2005 - 2015. He has also worked in the graphic workshop, Steinprent, on several occcasions.