"Tone Aanderaa has written: 'Every part of the landscape is given a name which evolved with the language and goes back to the misty past - and I relearn; the metaphors are everywhere....'

The metaphors "confess themselves" to the eyes and soul of this young artist as they do to the few whose sensitivity comes out to meet the call of the fjords, the glaciers, the mountains - the severe beauty of the Nordic lands, but more than that - the memories. A romantic like Tone Aanderaa would be in communion with the spirit of her surroundings in any corner of the world, but she is lucky to be tied to her ancestral land, to fish in its waters, to build in its woods, to dream and to paint everywhere.

The iconography, the visual language in which artists speak as a spontaneous outgrowth of this meeting, the artist's sensibility of life/death/world is frought with danger. The true artist who does not shy away fromthe powerful emotions which envelop the psyche may from time to time be swept away by drama and sentiment. But the risk has to be taken, as it was taken by Munch; I believe that his famous work, 'The Scream' is on the side of obvious melodrama, yet he had to not fear even that in order to be able to create the very verge, - the most haunting expressionist statements in art history, be it death-beds, voices in moonlight, young girls on bridges, jealousy...

Like Munch, Tone Aanderaa had to do some sentimental work in order to do the more restrained yet more powerful pieces; ('House', 'Sheep', 'In the Window', 'Exit' 'Black Lake', 'Death of a Rooster'...and 'A Horse and a Boat' are good examples among the best.)

Thus, from an inner sensibility, working under the spell of her Nordic homeland, working within a tradition and yet in full awareness of the the language of contemporary art, Tone Aanderaa createas a rare unity, seldom achieved by young artists. Looking at her moody and powerful paintings and works on paper one feels that this art comes to us as a must - no maneuvering and no strategies - simply voices heard by the artist which we hear now, voices which are memorable and beguiling."