About

Bjarne Werner Sørensen is a Danish–Faroese painter and printmaker based in Copenhagen. Working with colour, rhythm and layered structures, he builds compositions in which forms emerge, shift and find a temporary balance between improvisation and control.

For more than four decades, painting and printmaking have developed alongside one another in his practice. His printmaking spans copperplate etching, lithography and large-scale pigment printing. In both media, he often turns and reorients the image while working, allowing forms and spatial relationships to change. A work may pass through several states before its final orientation becomes clear.

His palette ranges from intense, saturated contrasts to restrained tonal relationships. Observations of water, vegetation and microscopic structures often serve as starting points, but not as subjects to be depicted. Their patterns and processes reappear in abstract compositions that seem to grow, dissolve and reorganise.

Born in Denmark, Sørensen spent his early childhood in Syria and Lebanon before returning to Denmark. He later spent extended periods in the Faroe Islands, where his mother was born, forming a lasting connection with the islands. Over several decades, he has contributed to the Faroese art scene as an exhibiting artist, organiser and curator, and has also produced numerous lithographs at Steinprent, the lithographic workshop in Tórshavn.

He graduated from the Jutland Art Academy in Aarhus in 1985 and has since exhibited widely in Denmark and internationally. His work is represented in public collections, including the National Gallery of Denmark and the New Carlsberg Foundation.