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Feb 9, 2012, 1:54 pm
In order to not get too skillful I constantly try to challenge myself. Making it less comfortable when working has always been one of my way strategies ... but now it really was super hard.
The canvas is so broad that I can not stand with one foot on each side without risking to slide further down... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2012, 1:53 pm
Normally I don't sketch - I just attack - but with this canvas I felt I needed to plan a bit more. It's huge, costed quite some money (with expensive stretch frame and special canvas prepared with three layers of gesso) and took time to prepare... Another thing is that I can't be as tough with thi... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2012, 3:20 pm
I was completely struck - and overwhelmed - by the joy I felt when I opened my studio door this morning. I've missed being here working ... and now I will spend more or less four months in my studio ... (if nothing drags me away - like an offer I can't refuse)
I wouldn't mind staying at the T... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 2:35 pm
Staffan Wettre's grandchild looking at the photosToday after dinner we went to the opening of the exhibition Det stora Äventyret (the Big Adventure) at the Maritime Museum. Photos, drawings, diary extracts and film clips recreates the journey that Staffan Wettre and Gunnar Stenström took in 1959 a... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 3:02 pm
No much to report about here; but I can share some links ...
little peoplecontemporary art daily Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 2:07 pm
Even though summer might feel very far away right now, it will come sooner than you think. And I'm happy to again teach a summer course in big-format screen print at the design school (HDK). I'll be back with more information about the course when it's made public (don't tell anyone I told you ...... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 2:42 pm
Today I biked to the studio to water my plants and check that my studio is still there. And of course it was! I also checked my ongoing project that I just left in the middle when I travelled to Colombia - and it actually looked as promising as I remembered. Sometimes you return to see it wasn't as... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 3:01 pm
Friday I paid a visit to Camilla's studio and had a coffee. She's renting this studio from artist Pecka Söderberg for a year while he's away traveling. There's a very special light and the colours of the surroundings - inside and outside - are like from one of Camilla's paintings. Like the one in ... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2012, 2:31 pm
Before going to Colombia I managed to finish my sketchbook for the sketchbook project. This was a fun little creative exercise for me, a playful intimate game on the theme "Grey side of Life". (and a healthy contrast for me who is nowadays just aiming for monumental).
I decided on some basic limita... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2012, 3:51 pm
It's nice to be home, but it sure feels kind of grey. I've missed my studio, but creative time will have to wait yet some time. Paperwork and planning ... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2012, 4:13 pm
Now when I'm back home I fell ready to start the new year!
But what is starting afresh without summing up 2011?
separate exhibition in Lysekil Konsthall
... and separate exhibition in NemeshallenI worked on a mural project together with schoolchildren. See the results here and here
in addition to... Comment - Like
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Jan 11, 2012, 2:00 am
Right now we are on our way back home to Sweden (this is a scheduled post). Visiting Colombia for the first time and meeting almost everyone in the big Colombian family has been something special. Counting Colombia I've been to 23 countries, but it's a big difference between just seeing a country as... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2012, 11:02 am
video; portrait (self portrait) drawing changing and disappearing as the water disappears from the sink. (I believe the drawing was made out of carbon powder) Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2012, 11:01 pm
It's not that often when visiting an exhibition that I feel happy, excited and "this is so good" - and all at the same time. But that's how I felt when I saw Oscar Muños' retrospective exhibition at Museo del Arte del Banco de la republica here in Bogotà! Oscar Muños is one of Colomia's most ... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2012, 10:05 am
the outskirts of Bogotà; a typical roadside restaurantanother place for eating; they are barbecuing big pieces of meat and cornI grew up without a car and I don't have a car in Sweden nowadays either. I've never in my life spent as much time in a car as now in Bogotà. According to my Colombian f... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 4:55 pm
I got this very interesting side effect when working in my studio yesterday. Actually it was much better than what I was trying to achieve. Now I'm trying hard to figure out how to keep that effect in a permanent way. But I'm just in the beginning of this process and feeling insecure and vulnerable ... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 2:49 pm
Being a good girl doing my bookkeeping, not lagging behind too much. (but inside I'm screaming) Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 2:33 pm
using anything I could find on the studio floor
spray paint and simplicity (boring!)a combination of Stephen King feeling, a pig and I don't know what ....
As I'm very repetitive when it comes to my paintings right now (yes - you guessed right: laughters) and kind of risk to bore you if I post more ... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2011, 3:22 pm
These days when waiting for my watercolours to dry I'm attempting to make an image of Morran for Camilla's book. It's like Morran is in my studio, sitting on the floor watching me paint (she has been sitting here on my studio floor in real life, but never watched me paint). Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2011, 1:32 pm
I was lifting the jar of gesso (a primer with the consistency of yoghurt, but more sticky and fast drying) by the lid - but it wasn't fastened properly... I dropped it, but kind of caught it again in a juggling kind of way and managed to get the content to fly up the ceiling, and then down all over ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 3:24 pm
Last week (Thursday night) I went to the opening of Daniel Milton's exhibition "La la land" at Galleri Thomassen here in Gothenburg. I've known him "web-wise" for 2-3 years now, but never seen him or his art in real life before. As it should be his art is to been seen in reality; his play with depic... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2011, 4:40 pm
Cultural Night on Friday night; night of 1000 drawings - exhibition selling art donated by 100 artists from Göteborg to support Faktum, a magazine for the homeless. The exhibition was arranged by DIY. drawings by Christin Wahlström Erikssonthe screen print I donated is the one with the fis... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 6:00 am
Tomorrow Friday it's cultural night here in Göteborg. This means a lot of art, performing arts and music all night long (or at least past midnight).
DIY is arranging night of 1000 drawings - an exhibition selling art donated by 100 artists from Göteborg to support Faktum, a magazine for the home... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2011, 1:40 pm
I love the way it can look in process sometimes, those involuntary magic results ... like after spray painting today.
I'm finally painting my small version of Snow white, Batman and the Phantom. It is to be exhibited on Friday at Kulturnatta ("culture night", which means a lot is going on all nigh... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2011, 3:46 pm
... not that it has anything to do with the simplicity I've been trying to achieve in my painting lately, But it made me laugh. Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2011, 2:01 pm
I felt I needed some more laughter.Not many words in my posts lately, but as it is now I don't really feel I have anything to write. I'm so into my work in my studio, into images. But the words should hopefully return to me. Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2011, 4:05 pm
Now I'm starting to loosen up. Scissors, knives and paintings that didn't really do (but still had something).
I felt a bit paralysed after finishing my polyptych the other day ... and almost forgot that I was supposed to do whatever and just have fun in my studio this autumn - to see where that wo... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 2:25 pm
my latest work; a polyptych - or to be more precise a hexaptych. (Which means I consider it to be one art piece that shouldn't be divided. Here I'm being absolutely non-commercial in my thinking ... )
Camilla is making a book full of Morran and you can contribute with your interpretation. It's an Op... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2011, 4:06 pm
I just realized I never properly showed you how how my studio became after I reorganized it and painted it white white and white. I more or less managed to get all my storage on one wall - and moved my table and four of my chairs to our lunch room. Ahhh - Space.
(this is what it looked like before) Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2011, 2:44 pm
20 - the anniversary Grafik i Väst (a printmaker's association) is celebrating. Here the catalogue to celebrate the occasion. 5 - the page where you will find my screenprint "POW!"104 - how many other artists you will find in the catalogue. Check it out here
1 - where you will find me in the on-lin... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2011, 3:10 pm
titthål = peep hole
Today we visited the Art Museum and saw the exhibition on Jan Lööf (illustrator, model-builder, writer, film-maker and more). They have made a playful little exhibition with fun solutions. The kiddo enjoyed it a lot and was especially fascinated with how the films were made; ... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2011, 3:05 pm
detail
I'm working with laughter. To get the right feeling I smile like the Joker in Batman while painting. It has to be like a grin. And it should be effortless. (It's exhausting. I've washed away several painting that didn't do. The sponge is my most used tool) Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2011, 1:00 pm
My studio neighbour Cissi has been working on a public commission for a preschool at the same time as I have been working on my commissioned art piece (the one in my last post). So I've been following her work in progress for a year and I've been so curious to see the final results. Today I finally ... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2011, 3:17 pm
The school kids came with several suggestions for the title last week. There was one very obvious winner: Snow White talks to the Phantom while Batman is disturbing and the Wolf is howling.
These days (or actually nights) it's all about putting together materials applying for public commissions, cre... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2011, 3:46 pm
Sometimes I feel it has all gotten so serious with my art - it's my livelihood and all my life. What about sometimes doing things just for fun and no other purpose?
So - when Pikaland announced you could win a participation in arthousecoop's sketchbook project I decided to take the chance and gambl... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 3:00 pm
While waiting for the watercolour to dry I've been unwrapping and checking my little concrete samples in the studio. Now they've hardened enough and can be let to dry.
I was a bit worried when turning my "cake form" over to get the simplified Snow White out. But it went without any problem! I had ... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2011, 1:45 pm
Yesterday I felt a bit lost, I didn't really know where to start. It's been 3 months without painting. I looked at the paintings I made in May in Skärhamn. Ok, but now what.? I felt blank, I feared a block.
This morning when I came to my studio it was bathing in light (good thing I painted the floo... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2011, 4:01 pm
After spending a couple of days in the studio fixing those last things I didn't arrange in July (putting up shelves, sorting drawings and prints) I'm now ready to start a period of just studio time.
I've prepared some papers, my mind feels utterly blank
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Sep 4, 2011, 2:45 pm
I don't want to let go of that summer feeling yet ...
Next to the school of Gerlesborg there's some very interesting looking worn down buildings. Perfect motives. But you shouldn't venture too close. The angry farmer - the owner - might come bursting out screaming it's private property and wave with... Comment - Like
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