Comments About Agnes Nora’s Art

Husband:
Art in General
My wife is a unique artist! She has and still does work in many mediums. She can sit along a gravel road and paint a wonderful landscape or work in one of her painting studios and produce a masterpiece there. Her artwork hangs from coast to coast. Take a Look!!

Ardith Palmer:
Student, art in general
"Bobbie has inspired me from the day I met her. Her work speaks from her heart. She is a very knowledgeable instructor from whom I have learned a great deal in class and by traveling with her. The thing I like most about her art is that she speaks through her pieces telling us about her life and how life has been for her."

Love from The Brother:
Landscapes
"The art of Bobbie Alsgaard-Lien reminds me of those magical moments when you
realize how good life really is; how one is lucky to be living on this great
midwestern plain, surrounded by your friends and family, enjoying a
sunset... accompanied by accordion music, of course."
Sky

The small watercolor with the poem…..

On the farm….
Going to the river
They built the fire
To keep us warm
Thank you brothers…..

…..gives me great thoughts. Great thoughts about how you keep our childhood memories alive with the touch of the brush and the touch of the pencil. Memories long forgotten from the “hard times” come to life when I look at that piece of art. A piece of art, from The Sister.

Laren Whitney:
Cousin comments about the Rel La Tive series
I first saw the "Cousins" trilogy at an art opening at the Carnegie Library in Sioux Falls. Here were three paintings of people I knew. I happened to be one of them. The painting was  Bobbie's impression of me as a young boy of 7 or 8 years old. I had forgotten about the time and the photo that was taken in the mid '50's at a family outing, but there I was in all my goofiness looking back at myself almost 50 years later. I was stunned. Bobbie had captured me in that moment better than the photograph ever could have. I have the painting hanging in our home and walk by it everyday and constantly have a feeling that the little boy in that painting is still inside of me somewhere. The painting is one of several I am honored to own that Bobbie has done.

Pat Caverly:
Accordion Series
The car accordion painting evokes one of many memorable trips Bobbie and I took when we were attending the University of South Dakota. On this particular trip we were driving Bobbies 19-- Buick (?) taking all the blue highways, and an occasional dirt road. We were two cool young independent women (or so we thought), one hippie white girl and one SD Indian. Actually, we were pretty sweaty. The car had no air conditioning and it was the height of the summer on the Plains. The thermometer was creeping over the 100 degree mark and the air was so heavy with humidity that we could cut the air with the handy weapons we always kept on us when we traveled . . . the forks!  Our average speed was around 30 mph (Bobbie’s idea!) and maybe 50 mph if one of use needed a Coke or a bathroom, or THE CAR needed gas. We probably looked a bit scary and odd to the farmer plowing his field or the white boy reluctantly pumping gas for us. (Yes, it was that long ago!)  Well, after driving all day on the dusty back roads of South Dakota by never-ending beautiful fields of crops, on a torturously hot day, we arrived at our destination . . . . The Girls Farm! Well, that is quite another story.  

Keep the paintings coming Bobbie. The oil's memory banks need all the help they can get!

Jean Larsen
Art in general
I have always appreciated Bobbie's use of color and find her paintings to be poetic. Her work reminds me of the paintings of Marc Chagall. Her paintings are filled with a lyrical fantasy and mystery.

Kathy Kusz:
Sorono Series
There we are painting in Italy, with all these luscious vistas all around, and the painting I remember the most of yours was one of a chicken.  No scenery, no setting, no background,  just a chicken.  Not a photorealistic chicken, but it was dynamic.  And when I went to see your Italian work on exhibit, it was still one of my favorites.  I kept going back to look at it, expecting it to move.