'An unusually sensitive, intelligent and articulate artist, Ørnulf Opdahl has reflected long and hard on his art. If his early work can be rich in matters symbolic and mythic, its development over the last decades evinces a clear movement away from any suggestion of what used to be called "literary art" in favour of an ever deeper engagement with the poetics of pure painting - albeit, most importantly, painting charged by the sublime presence and power of nature in the North'. (Dr Michael Tucker)
