Evil House: Monochrome Drawings by Morten Schelde

Morten Schelde is a renowned Danish artist born in 1972 in Copenhagen.

His linear drawings, prints and etchings employ a colourful yet limited palette (often in monochrome red or black) to render dreamy scenes of fantastical worlds, from interiors and domestic spaces (beds, rooms, doorways), to portraits, panoramic landscapes and anthropomorphized animal figures such as bears, horses and wolves, these last being recurring characters.

Suspended between the figural and the abstract, Schelde’s motifs often revolve around his own life and notably his childhood, in a conflation between mythological memories, familiar scenes, and surreal inventions – to end up forming fairytale compositions.

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Window – Nørre Søgade: Coloured pencil on paper, 29,7 X 21 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Window – Mehringdamm: Coloured pencil on paper, 29,7 X 21 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Window – mirror: Pencil on paper, 29,7 X 21 cm, 2015

Window – Holbæk: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus

Window – Harlem: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus

Window – Frederiksberg: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus

Window – Fhain: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus

Window – Christiansborg: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus

Window – Birkerød: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus

Window – Amerikavej: Coloured pencil on paper, 29,7 X 21 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Window – Amerikavej: Version 1. Coloured pencil on paper, 29,7 X 21 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Window – Tannaaker: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus

Orange Interior: Pencil on paper, 50X37 cm, 2013

The Staircase (Richard-Sorge-Strasse 79): Pencil on paper 200 X 150 cm 2009 Private collection

The Staircase (Viel Glück): Pencil on paper 140 X 100 cm 2004 Private collection

Blue Interior: Pencil on paper, 37X37 cm, 2013

The Memory Palace: Pencil on paper, 100X80 cm, 2013

Red Mansion: Coloured pencil on paper, 75 X 70 cm, 2015

The Faculty: Pencil on paper 69 X 79 cm 2004 Private collection

ed House: Coloured pencil on paper, 42 X 42 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

A Mansion in the Darkness: Coloured pencil on paper, 29,7 X 29,7 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Red House: Pencil on paper, 69X100 cm, 2013

Children of Suburbia #31: Pencil on paper 88 X 68 cm 2001 Private collection

Primeval Forest (Magenta): Ink on paper, 150 X 120 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Evil House: Pencil on paper 150 X 200 cm 2007 Collection of Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery of Denmark

Primeval Forest (green): Ink on paper, 150 X 120 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

The Neighbour: The Neighbour, pencil on paper, 200X150 cm, 2012.

Stones: Pencil on paper, 150 X 120 cm, 2014

Yellow Road: Pencil on paper, 50X37 cm, 2013

Abendland #1: Pencil on paper 200 X 150 Private collection

Abendland: Coloured pencil on paper, 120 X 90 cm, 2015

Abendland: Coloured pencil on paper, 150 X 120 cm, 2015 Courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

The White Ship: Pencil on paper 200 X 150 cm 2006 Collection of Nykredit

“I did it all for you” is both the truth and a lie: pencil on two overlapping sheets of paper 175 X 145 cm 2002 Collection of Statens Kunstfond

Children of Suburbia #46: Pencil on paper 150 X 500 cm 2004 Birkerød Gymnasium, Denmark

Children of Suburbia #45: Pencil on paper 300 X 200 cm 2003 Collection of Novo, Denmark

Car: Pencil on paper 49 X 42 cm 2005

Indigo Interior: Pencil on paper, 25X37 cm, 2013

Green Interior: Pencil on paper, 70X50 cm

The General: pencil on paper, 200 X 150 cm, 2011, courtesy Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Red Noise Meditation: Detail from Red Noise Meditation at Kunstforeningen Gl Strand Indian and coloured inks, acrylics, pencil on paper 305 X 3500 cm Photo credit: Alastair Philip Wiper

Red Noise Meditation: Installation shot from Kunstforeningen Gl Strand Indian and coloured inks, acrylics, pencil on paper 305 X 3500 cm Painted wooden sticks Photo credit: Alastair Philip Wiper

Red Noise Meditation: Installation shot from Kunstforeningen Gl Strand Indian and coloured inks, acrylics, pencil on paper 305 X 746 cm Painted wooden sticks Photo credit: Alastair Philip Wiper

Red Noise Meditation: Installation shot from Kunstforeningen Gl Strand Indian and coloured inks, acrylics, pencil on paper 305 X 3500 cm Painted wooden sticks Photo credit: Alastair Philip Wiper