Origins

The seed that later grew into the Peacepainting movement, was sown in the coastal municipality of Bindal, Norway.

Quiet, colorful Bindal is a natural home for Peacepainting's work to give individuals a universal language to express themselves.

In 2007, the Norwegian painter Catrine Gangstø founded Peacepainting in response to her discomfort to the injustice in the world. 

She developed a method for people (especially children) to express themselves in an intuitive, authentic way.

This method involves appealing to the good place in people’s hearts, taking people seriously, and giving them high quality painting tools.

The result is powerful pieces of art where each painting has a valuable message to the world.

To lift these messages, raise awareness and influence the adult world, the paintings are exhibited at all levels of society.

This is how we do it

In the workshops we use colours as a common platform for people to meet, regardless of their background. Our trained instructors never teach anyone to paint. Rather, they give children, youth and adults the intuitive language of colours to express themselves.

Through exhibitions where the world's decision makers meet and wander, each individual painting gets a strong impact. Each painting has its own unique, authentic message that is worth being listened to.

Peacepainting exhibitions can be found at several airports, ministries, schools and banks, museums and embassies. Paintings has even been used as governmental gifts, e.g. when Aung San Suu Kyi gave her Nobel Peace Prize speech in Norway in 2012.