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Friday, May 17th, 2013Third day of the workshop and I´m ecstatic to learn a technique I´ve wondered about for over 20 years. I know it doesn´t look like much in the pictures, but you can truly make astounding pieces of art this way. It´s all about knowing a bit about the qualities or qualifications of the different fabrics [...]
pale pink granite
Thursday, March 14th, 2013I made a silkscreen frame all on my own! Yes! This one´s motif is of the naked rock faces in pale, pale pink granite on the northern part of the most western/northern islands of Bømlo. After making the frame, it´s a good idea to leave it in the sunlight to fasten a bit extra. I´m [...]
making a silkscreen
Thursday, March 14th, 2013The day has come! Finally I will learn how to make a silkscreen! Remember this girl? I used the same girl on my screen, quite a bit bigger than the mini wooden version, and much more precise in the lines. Unfortunately I don´t have any photos from the dark room where I had the light-sensible emulsion [...]
turquoise hearts
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013Sorry, the site has been down for a couple of days. And days when so much has been happening! I´ll have to post more pictures this afternoon, but for now, here are some turquoise hearts, The fabric is first dyed randomly , then bleached the hearts. The paste had turquoise in it, but it didn´t [...]
two-sided dyeing
Sunday, March 10th, 2013This is actually two experiments in one. Or maybe even three… I wanted to try dying on different fabrics. So I made a print on cotton velvet, and am really intrigued to see if the dye will soak up into the fibers, or if it will just stay as a coat on the outside. Part [...]
trial and error
Saturday, March 9th, 2013Doesn´t this look like I´m whipping up a curry for dinner, mixing spices? I´m not. I´m mixing my very own golden yellow dye. But this “muffin-batch” of resistance IS actually edible. The dye is pure color-pigment, mixed with a potato-starch-based powder mixed with water. I can use it plain white or add color to it. [...]
mixing dye, mixing colors
Thursday, March 7th, 2013Dye-mixing-day! There´s quite a bit of chemistry and math involved in textiles, more than you might think. Very interesting. When it´s all new, learning the recipes, the names of the ingredients, it´s slightly confusing. But once I´ve actually DONE it, it sticks in a completely different way, than just by hearing it. I mixed a [...]
a door silently opened
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013This fall I was officially approved as an artist by membership through Norwegian Visual Artist Association. This certainly has some advantages, one of which I wasn´t even aware of. Usually you become a member through education, passing your BFA/MFA exams. You can also work yourself up into membership by a series of commissions, exhibitions, sales, [...]
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 [...]
Painting with Brian
Sunday, September 16th, 2012This weekend I´ve been hosting a paint-workshop for Bømlo Art Group, with artist Brian Wallace as a teacher. We´ve been wanting to host workshops for years, and finally we got the show on the road! And we had such a blast! Here, Brian is in the middle of one of his show-and-tells. My main challenge [...]
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