Schjølberg works in a figurative, evocative idiom where composition, atmosphere and depth are central. Through painting, printmaking and sculpture, she explores the potential of the surface to convey both space and emotional interstices.

Her motifs often contain an ambiguity - scenes from everyday life that also carry an underlying unease. The dreamlike and the poetic are always present, but behind the idyll there is a hint of something unexplained.

Children are often a recurring theme in her work, as symbols of wonder, memory and the closed spaces of the human mind. Schjølberg seeks to open up these spaces through his idiom - quiet, but charged with meaning.