About me

NEWS  February 2010

Building up the new version of my site here

Rebuilding the HikingArtist.com site

I am redesigning my site with a whole new wordpress blog front,  with lots of new stories, watercolors and illustrations.

So please excuse me if it is a bit of a mess right now…

During the next days I will change the download section so I move quite a few things over to Flickr…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/

I plan to have a lot of new features and stories up here very soon.

Facebook: I have a new page on Facebook also: facebook.com/hikingartist

Here is a short presentation about me:

Hiking Artist.com -  is where I, Frits Ahlefeldt (1966),  is telling stories, putting up my art and my cartoons -  and making more and more of my illustrations and watercolors available for download in several sizes.

I live en Denmark with my girlfriend and my two small daughters.

Here is my address:

HikingArtist.com V/ Frits Ahlefeldt
Ahornsgade 24 2. th.
2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark

Phone: +45 20 74 26 72

Mail:  you can send me a message here on “contact” on the hikingartist.com/art section

What I do:
I work with hiking, storytelling and understanding.
I work to use art to create knowledge about who, and what we are and what trails, we use to pass through life on. I also do watercolors and experiment on how to use digital technology, poetry and metaphors to visualize understanding.

My background and inspiration
Hiking and walking is where I get my inspiration, and I have been hiking since 1986, where I spent 8 months in the mountains of Norway, in a Mountaineering school to understand the basic. I started to draw three years later in 1989 to get a break from my journalist dreams – and from 1991-2000, I studied on the Royal Danish Academy of fine Art (Architecture & landscape), where I did concepts, art, architecture, industrial design and landscape.
I also have a full Cand.IT degree (2001-2006) in Digital communication and design from the Danish IT university, Where I specialized in digital visual storytelling. I have worked as an illustrator, vizualizer, designer, concept-consultant, architect and a lot of other things. Today I am a full member of the Danish Journalist Union.

In 1999 I walked and painted my way 1.500km. to Santiago de Compostella along the ancient pilgrim trail. Since then I have made illustrations for magazines, newspapers, websites and workshops. And I have hiked a lot of trails and worked hard to get closer to understand how to visualize the trails and the metaphors in our heads.

My philosophy
I believe that if we can re-connect our understanding to the landscapes and trails out there through walking and storytelling, this understanding will make us a lot happier and the planet a much nicer place for everybody.

I do my best to keep up, learning new things about how to do this, from studying GPS systems, Google earth and advanced mobile blogging and to learn about traditional cultures, storytelling and art.

In my work, I have been inspired by Bruce Chatwin (the Songlines etc.) and a lot of other hikers and walkers throughout history
Frits Ahlefeldt – Denmark

HikingArtist.com – February 2010