The Exultate Jubilate was created by artist Kirsti Ottem Langeland, an artist who lived in Trondheim, Norway. Kirsti loved art and classical and described herself as tall, creative, capricious, depressive, and humourous. She tended to lapse into reveries, melancholy, and obsessions, which is why she spent considerable time in silence with her pencils, brushes, and calligraphic pens. She believed in God, love, art, intelligence, common sense, kindness, music, honesty, and BMWs. She was inspired to draw "Exultate Jubilate" while listening to Cecelia Bartoli’s interpretation of Mozart arias. The original was created in ink, pencil, crayons, and gold and silver paint.