Using the airbrush exclusively, Hvidtfeldt has developed a variety of techniques of masking and layering that makes his work so recognizable and gives it his playful, colorful and distinctive style.

Be it colorful injection mold toy soldiers, warped eyes, classical paintings as backgrounds for an explosion of scattered debris on a grit, robotic post humans in suits or paintings of sculpture like representations of people, it is always tied together by recurring symbols and themes.

Hvidtfeldt is exploring a universe, developing a vocabulary of symbols and layers that draws upon art history and our collective history from the background to the foreground, past and present.

The themes are centered around the age old questions of our existence and connection to each other, our nature and culture.

Backgrounds of nature motifs are borrowed from the portrait painting tradition, painted in an out-of-focus fashion to mimic bokeh in photography.

Emphasizing a distance to the past and yet a past which is always visible, utilized as a backdrop for the figures in front, in focus, on stage and in the present.

Aske Hvidtfeldt has sold works in DK, US and NZ.