featured illo

One of my illustrations made it to the 3x3 Professional Show No. 7! It will be featured in the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 7. I'm quite honored!


Bill from People I Never Knew I Knew.

tie-up of threads

The opening of the Red Thread at Kaleido last Saturday. The weather could have been better but the gallery was quite packed anyway and the exhibition looked great. It was inspiring to see all the different interpretations of the theme. Below are just a few pics of all the goodies there.

From right to left: Maria Lewis from Kaleido, Annica Delfos from Galleri Zône (who initiated the collaboration) and the councellor from the Royal Dutch Embassy.







O. and I in awe :)

welcome!

Saturday 12th of June is the opening of the show The Red Thread, at Kaleido in Uppsala! It will be officially opened by the counsellor from the Royal Dutch Embassy in Stockholm, Pieter Ramaen, at 12 o'clock.

I had a hysterectomy 2 weeks ago which knocked me off my feet for the first week. I'm still a little short of breath but recovering and will definitely try to be there, at least for a while.

Welcome all!

filling the void

This is my latest project for a group show called The Red Thread, at the Kaleido gallery this summer. This "necklace" is made of scraps of paper in many different qualities, folded and sewn on to a leather strap, the name of the piece is Filling the Void. Other exhibitors, apart from members of Kaleido, are a group of dutch artists from a similar cooperative in Holland: Galerie Zône. After summer the show will travel on to Leiden, in Holland, in the beginning of September.

book and box workshop

Held the second weekend workshop at HDK and the textile department in April. This time I taught them how to make boxes and accordion books. It's so rewarding to teach these courses, so inspiring to see what comes out of their hands. Here are some examples of their work.

Birgittas book for leaf collecting




Klaras sewn type on vintage book spine...


... and her coin box


Nanakas two boxes



Annies stab bindings in a charger

gone back gone again

Last weekend I held a bookbinding workshop in this beautiful paper shop in the center of Göteborg, Rum för Papper. Shop owners Ulrica, Mia and Tove organized it all perfectly, so everyone had a great creative day in a beautiful setting. The shop consists of two not very big rooms, lined with paper goods from floor to ceiling. I'll be back there in october again, looking forward to it already.

Since the girls had their Easter break, I came with the whole family and we stayed in our old neighborhood with our former next door neighbors. It was so nice to be back, we all got very sentimental...

Tomorrow I'm off to Göteborg – again... This is the last weekend I'm at HDK, and the Crafts Department, this spring. This time to teach them how to make boxes! It will be interesting since it's the first time I give a course in this.

spring salon

A visit to the Spring Salon at Liljevalchs is always refreshing and inspiring. In the foreground my art group from Sigtuna Folkhögskola.



Here are some of my favourites.

back and forth

This past weekend I held a two-day bookbinding workshop in Gothenburg, at the School of Design and Crafts. Mostly students from the textile department, a very nice bunch. I'll be back in April to teach them how to make boxes.

Came down with a bad cold the day I arrived, really bad timing... my head felt like one size too small. I managed to do the course, although I was completely exhausted after the two days. Forgot to take photos during the course, but remembered my camera when I saw a piece of street art on my way to visit my brother.

giant cream cake

This is how my large clay bowl (or rather plate?) is progressing. I made a plaster cast in two halves, which I then filled to the brim with plaster. This will dry for one week and then I have a form on which I can make my papier maché. Looks tasty, don't you think?

shaping a form

Last week I started on a big form which I am planning to make papier maché objects on eventually. I have never done this, but with the guidance of art teacher Ulf at Sigtuna Folkhögskola, hopefully I will succeed.

Earlier the very same day, I had coffee with a new acquaintance, Sara, who has recently moved to Sigtuna. It turns out she is a mask-maker (among other things) and knows just about everything there is to know about papier maché! She also happened to be very nice :)

This is the the first step: making a clay form. The next step will be to cover it in plaster to make a plaster cast.

flooded

Sun is flooding our studio! I love the light, but by the window it's steaming hot. Never mind, the promise of spring is here :)





Making small booklets that will be on sale at Kaleido.


There's still a LOT of snow despite the warming sun. If it melts too quickly we'll be flooded in water instead. A family of 3 roedeer have been visiting our back yard in search of something to eat. They have had a tough winter, but at least these three have made it through. They're lovely to watch (although Asta goes crazy when she hears them stepping around outside, she wants to chase them).