Lina Murel Jardorf

I am my art, for over 30 years

"I create works that I am sure will give the viewer a great experience - I contact my innermost self when I work with my art, I am my art." says Lina, who was given a task by Sjælsø Gruppen, for whom she had to create 7 several meter high sculptures, each of which had to represent an emotion.

"When I created "Love", I walked around bubbling with love and with butterflies in my stomach like when you are in love, but when I came to "Sorrow" I became completely unhappy and thought about my husband's violent death from ALS, got a little chat with him, and that was the whole process in "The 7 Emotions", and in general in my art.

I do my best and draw on some great innate powers when I create my works, every one of my works is unique and created by me, I take part in the casting, patina myself and grind and polish with my 2 people who are casters and grinds.

I am so lucky that I can follow my sculptures from start to finish, because I have my own bronze foundry, and thus no climate footprint from transport, and beautiful Æbleblomst farm with the fairy-tale elf-like studio.

Lina's work are especially popular among companies, to adorn their premises or give to their employees.
Companies that are customers of Lina's bronze sculptures; Novo Nordisk Art Association

 ”All members in our art association are special, and in 2008 we wanted to give them a christmas present that celebrated both the individualism and the community of our group. Linas art has a wonderful way of getting people together, while still focusing on the single individual, and we chose her to make a unique sculpture for each of our 1200 members.
Before giving them away, we exhibited them all together on a big glass table in Pakhus 12 in Copenhagen. The bronze women became a big piece of art in itself, a large scale installation full of joy, strength and hope.”
Thomas Christiansen
Chairman of The Novo Group Art Association.

Read more about the projects here.

Statement from art critic Ole Lindgren

"For more than 30 years, Lina Murel Jardorf has understood how to touch, unite and talk to people through her soulful works, because Lina wants to deliver art that tells people something. She doesn't wear a mask when she works. Lina is her art! "

Statement from art collector-reviewer and curator Jens-Peter Brask

"Bronze can do something that other media cannot: where a painting is flat, sculptures are three-dimensional and very alive. The process is demanding, and from the sketch to the final result there are many steps. Bronze has been used for hundreds of years, and it will I never tire of. That's why I visited and photographed the artist Lina Murel Jardorf, who masters this process of creation with a sure hand. Lina Murel Jardorf works magic when she models and makes it look playfully easy to create bronze sculptures. Bronze is a difficult medium, and this book (A Heart of Bronze) takes you through all phases and illuminates the enormous work that lies behind a work"