ABOUT THOMAS

Thomas Winding foran sit kunstværk, liggende smilende på scenen i sort-hvid foto.

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thomas windings world

Throughout his life, Thomas Winding dabbled in a world of different artistic expressions. He was full of ideas, colors, drawings and paintings, films, stories and music. He had a certain eye for the relative in life, which arose from a constant search for the truthful and the genuine in life. This was often expressed in surprisingly absurd, humorous and poetic juxtapositions and contrasts. The artificial, the stilted, the inauthentic and counterfeit called upon his sense of humor, but he was never sarcastic. His attitude towards children was characterized by a humanistic view of humanity.

Sommerbillede i sort-hvid af Thomas Winding og venner ved havet med båd og hatte.

Thomas Winding was always busy

... with everything that occupied him and that he loved. He was always busy, he rarely sat down at one desk when he worked at home, but moved around the house according to his mood. In the course of a day he could sit and write a story for a film or a book, weed in the garden, play the piano, bass or trumpet, bake a loaf of bread, work on a painting or on the illustrations for a book and much more. Thomas Winding's artistic career began with drawing and painting. But it took several years before he realized, in his own words, that even when he wrote, it was not THE WORDS he had to sit and look for, but THE PICTURES that gave the stories.

Thomas Winding arbejder ved skrivemaskine under lampe, kunstnerisk stemningsbillede i sort-hvid.Foto: Vibeke Winding

When I close my eyes and sit and wait

...then the pictures come. At first they are quite blurry, but if I wait patiently, they become completely clear. I see pictures of people I know, houses I have visited and countries I have been to.

I see images from films and drawings from books I have read. But also images I do not know. Strange houses, animals and plants, Indians, elves and angels. And sometimes they become stories. And they must be stories that lie in the darkness and wait to be told.

Thomas Winding: “A box of pictures”.
Photo: Vibeke Winding

Selvportræt af Thomas Winding i samtale med hunden Mester, tegnet i sort-hvid.

Many remember Thomas Winding for his voice

...but the voice would not have been remembered without the stories he told, and the stories were created by the images. That's part of his world we want to take you into. When you look at his wonderful images, you can close your eyes and wait for the images to become your own stories.

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