Jimmi Hartvig was born in 1975 and lives in the vibrant city of Copenhagen. From an early age he was gifted with a creative and curious nature, drawing inspiration amongst other things from his father’s craft as a shipbuilder, a trade utilising a variety of materials and tools, as well his mother’s job as a seamstress, which involved the colourful transformation of cloth into clothing.

Playing on board ships, in empty lots filled with machinery and old junk, as well as in dark, mechanical engine rooms formed a beautiful contrast to the changing palettes of the seasons in the nearby woods and beaches of Liseleje. Imagination turned his surroundings, natural and man-made, into a playground with no limitations, but also a safe haven, a place of solitude and contemplation.

Another important source of inspiration is his former job at Denmark’s National Space Institute. Jimmi Hartvig often brings his studio outside and to different locations – factories, technical installations, abandoned places – in order to achieve a greater sense of the spatial environment and a closer connection to the subject of his art. His preferred media in painting is oils and acrylics, but he never shrinks from experimenting with different materials.