Jonas Aabel, born in 1980, holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), completed in 2006. Coming from a family of artists, he has always loved to draw. Throughout his career as a designer in the maritime industry, Jonas has developed high-level skills with screen-based drawing and painting tools. During the pandemic, with fewer design commissions and locked inside his apartment, Jonas felt the urge to create digital paintings.

Inspired by artists like Peter Zimmerman from Germany and Gunnar S. Gundersen from Norway, Jonas eventually found his own unique, abstract expression. His experience designing boats and ships has given him the ability to draw extreme curvatures with a confident stroke directly on the screen. This is the foundation of his unique, dynamic style.

His design capabilities, combined with the computer's superior power for creating gradients and transparency, result in compositions that he believes would be virtually impossible to execute with traditional physical media. When the digital motif is transferred to a physical medium, the result is an exciting work with depth and fascinating intersections between form, color, and opacity.

It must be emphasized that the art Jonas creates is not AI-based. Every motif he creates is 100% handmade. Painting on a screen is a new and unfamiliar medium for many, but in recent years, it has become a recognized and legitimate tool increasingly used by artists. As with other graphic expressions, it is the skill of the artist and the size of the edition that define its exclusivity.

The motifs are printed on exclusive cotton paper and canvas in limited editions, hand-signed, and numbered by the artist. The works fall under the category of "DGA" (Digital Graphic Art), where the digital file functions as the original "printing plate." The data file is permanently deleted once the upper limit of the edition has been reached.