My name is Paulina Ree, I’m a visual artist, focusing primarily on portraiture and figurative work.  My current body of work revolves around themes of memory, rumination, mental health, and human experience, with particular focus on the emotions of raising children in the absence of a “village.” 
My work expresses the longing I have for the life I knew growing up. It also explores the ways I am learning to love myself – body and mind – and the ways I am learning to understand both.  It is an introspection as much as it is a story of the life I have lived and of those who have been a part of it. I use music and photographs as my main inspiration. Growing up surrounded by music, my grandfather is a musician and my memories from childhood are filled with singing in family gatherings.  I see my life as a rokola, an old style jukebox, music always in the background for the highs and lows of life. I am working on a series titled after well known boleros, a music style popular in my native Ecuador. I live in Oslo, Norway with my husband and 3 daughters.