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Thursday, March 7th, 2013We interrupt this fabric-paint-workshop post series with a little traditional wood carving! I´m staying at my uncle´s house in Bergen, and he´s been wood-carving for years now, and his house is full of these wonderful treasures that he´s made. Wood-carving like this, with the “rose-painted” motifs, I believe is a Nordic tradition. A lot of [...]
Tyler´s bunnygirl, Katy´s flowers and my art wall
Saturday, January 19th, 2013It´s time for the last art-swap pieces. This cute little bunny-girl was painted by Tyler in BabyLux. Or maybe it´s a bear-girl? Anyhow. She´s cute! Next is Katy Keuter´s free-sprited painted collage. She didn´t write a title on it, so I´m calling it “Where have all the flowers gone?” Somehow it makes me think of hippies [...]
Rosendal inspiration
Friday, October 19th, 2012Rosendal is a small village in one of the fjords east of my island, and it has one of the very few castles in Norway, from the 17th century. They also have a great reputation for art. Every November they host a big Christmas-fair, and the hosts of the fair invited me to have an [...]
Inspiration: Jan Terje Rafdal
Thursday, August 16th, 2012Jan Terje Rafdal is an artist from Etne, and he has a really great exhibition this summer in Galleri Giga. He´s moved part of his workspace/studio into the gallery, and is working there, while people visit both his exhibition and the rest of the gallery. His current themes are “Earth-finds” (inspired by his finds with [...]
Inspiration: Alf Ertsland
Saturday, June 30th, 2012I was at the exhibition-opening of Alf Ertsland today at Galleri Giga, and was truly inspired by his amazing oil-paintings. So much that I not only have to share with you some of his paintings, I went straight to my arts and crafts-shop to buy some oil-paints myself. I´ve never tried it before, but next [...]
Inspiration: Guy Laramee
Sunday, June 17th, 2012This week´s inspiration is Canadian Sculptor and painter Guy Laramee. His recycled-books-turned-into-art is truly amazing! Visit his site and be blown away by immaculate details in his landscape-sculptures. “So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit [...]
Inspiration: Sandy Martin
Friday, June 8th, 2012I met Sandy Martin at Artfest this year. She´s a colorful & wonderful jewelry-artist from Santa Fe, USA. An energy-explosion of a woman! I am so lucky, I just got two little miniature art girls from her. One of them will go in my little gallery-pendant-book. The other one I´ll put on my inspiration-board. Don´t [...]
Inspiration: Feather fantasies
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012I was so lucky I met Lorra Lee Rose of Feather Fantasies at Artfest. We were in the same class toghter, and at the end of the day we started talking about feathers. She showed me some of her work, and my jaw dropped. Let me show you just a couple of her creations, and then [...]
Memory-mini-book-pendant-art-entries
Saturday, April 14th, 2012Ok, I have to share with you one more inspiration-post before I get back to my own work. These are new little treasures in my memory-art-mini-book-pendant-necklace. Some real goodies in there! First off is a man with a serious haircut by the one and only Tracy Moore! Then a sweet summer-girl by the one and [...]
Inspiration: Parke Harrison
Monday, January 9th, 2012It´s high time I did another inspiration-post. And this time I have a real treat! Robert and Shana Parke Harrison. These pictures are all from a series called The Architect´s brother, and they are just mesmerizing! The Windmaker Listening to the earth These are photographs, and I find them so inspiring in every aspect. Click [...]
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