Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson

Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson is a documentary on the painter Eggert Pétursson In moraines near Skaftafell Glacier and close to the Arctic Circle at Tröllaskagi peninsula we discover the films dynamic cornerstone on our trip through the Highlands Our guide is botanist Thóra Ellen Thórhallsdóttir who connects the dots between our experience of the Icelandic nature and the floral diversity of Eggerts flower paintings Eggert is a conceptual artist with a realistic vision of form and structure but the imagination is tied to interpretation and his own sense of painting From his book of sketches surrounded by a musical ode to Mother Nature the floras perseverance and complexity matches the world of the painting while emphasizing the coexistence of these two worlds