The Guardian's obituary for Kjell Nupen highlights the Church commissions he received towards the end of his career:
"Towards the end of his career he received some spectacular commissions, including the decoration of the church of Søm in Kristiansand (2004). Here a window runs from behind the altar to the entrance wall, splitting the ceiling in two in a blaze of bright abstract forms.
From Darkness to Light, Nupen's name for his creation at Søm, would also be a suitable description for the tall, slender windows that he made in 2010 for the church at Geilo, a mountain resort town between Bergen and Oslo. Blue at the base and yellow at the top, they bathe the polished altar and baptistery, also designed by Nupen, with colour. As the artist put it: "Here one truly paints with light." Together with Nupen's bronze crucifix installed nearby, these works were given the title The Unending Journey, a concept often represented in Nupen's art by the motif of the boat.
Most impressive of all was the Ansgar Chapel in Kristiansand (2008), for which Nupen proposed architectural proportions similar to those ascribed in the First Book of Kings to the Temple of Solomon. While the building itself alludes to the Old Testament, the windows, which run through the ceiling and even the corners of the church, powerfully symbolise the light of the world."
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