Olabue / Ola’s shack

A small grant brought me to Austevoll, a group of islands on the west coast of Norway. There I found this beatiful little shed, built long time ago, probably for fishing gear and equipment to the boat.

While standing there painting a little old man approached me, asking the second most common question in the business: “How much could this painting cost?” I mentioned a small sum, and he looked like if I’d hit him, uttering sounds of dismay.

Then he went on with the conversation: “Its me who owns that fish farm out there!”

Fun fact: At this time Austevoll, as a result of the fishing and seafood industry, had the highest concentration of millionaires in Norway.