Eggert Petursson (b.
1956) Eggert Petursson’s sole subject is the
Icelandic flora. Conceptual rather than decorative, his unique paintings
of the minute tundra flowers of Iceland’s seemingly barren landscape
reveal, with dizzying effect, the universe within. Abstract at a
distance, at close inspection his canvases are hyper-realistic - an
infinite regression of painstaking brush detail creating each petal,
stem, and leaf.
