My name is Ena Johanna Rathgeb, and I am an artist and illustrator based in Bergen, Norway. Having grown up between Germany and England, surrounded by five siblings, countless pets, and houses full of chaos and art, I developed a fascination with the people and spaces that shape our sense of belonging.
My practice centres on large-scale, detailed coloured-pencil drawings of everyday life. I depict people lying on beds, getting dressed, cutting their hair, or simply sitting in a room. I am drawn to gestures and postures that feel strange, funny, tender, or unmistakably human.
Returning to the coloured pencils I used as a child, I rediscovered a medium that allows me to slow down and pay closer attention. Through layers of colour and detail, I explore intimacy and relationships, finding beauty in the quiet, unguarded moments of
