Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag produced a wide variety of rosemaling painters and styles. In this class, Vesterheim Gold Medalist Louise Bath will focus on Ole Olsen Heimvågsåsen, who was a prolific and distinguished rosemaler. He lived in Snåsa, Nord-Trøndelag, around 1800. He became known for reddish-brown painted cupboards with green rosemaling panels. He also painted trunks, usually blue with red bands. Perhaps he also made these pieces of furniture himself – in the census of 1801 he is listed as a carpenter and painter.

Heimvågsåsen had a distinctive style with tulips, roses, fruits, and small flowers in red, orange and white growing from urns, and vases or on swaying stems swinging up from a volute at the bottom left. A rhythmic multitude of black brushstrokes make up the foliage. He used small flower stencils throughout the painting and to surround the green panels. In an exhibition by the Snåsa Historielag in 1979, the majority of the rose-painted chests and cupboards were thought to have been painted by Ole Heimvågsåsen between 1790 and 1820. His style is elegant, flowing, and unique.