Collection: Hedda Maj Teglbjærg Jensen

Hedda's words:

When I paint, I let go of my thoughts, and everything stands open. I have always expressed myself creatively, but when I became ill with anxiety and depression, the canvas became a place where I could breathe freely again. In painting, I don’t need any words, and my feelings find their way through colors and shapes.

My works are abstract, yet they carry traces of something familiar. I work in layers—sometimes chaotic and intense, other times slow and explorative. I add and scrape away, repeating the process until the painting begins to speak on its own. I never know where it will end, but certain shapes keep returning and have become a kind of signature.

The finished piece is never a fixed narrative. Some see landscapes; others see people or movement. For me, it’s not about concrete motifs, but about the atmosphere that arises in the meeting between the painting and the viewer. The paintings revolve around transformation—how something can be broken down and built up again in new forms. They remind me that in the imperfect and fragile, there is a special kind of beauty.

I hope my paintings can serve as an invitation to pause and feel, and to find one’s own story or emotion within the colors.