frantic days are over

 

The things I made for Stockholm Furniture Fair arrived there all right. Frantic days are over. I will take the train to Stockholm tomorrow myself. It's the first time I show my work like this and I think it will be fun. Hope to give you reports, there are a lot of side events too. I'll stay from Tuesday to Friday, in the KHVC stand A09:02, welcome to stop by!

There will be work from 10 Swedish craft artists in the stand, see more here...

This is what happened in the studio since latest post, I was busy!

 

  

concrete work in progress

Work in too slow progress, the pieces for the KHVC stand at Stockholm Furniture Fair is taking shape; to sit on or to look at. These are photos from the last two weeks. Now I've reached the phase of the process when you look at your work and wonder "Who is doing this?".



A ceramic seat for the shape.





I form an inner shape of frigolite. A layer of fibre concrete on top of a metal net that keeps the concrete in place and makes the shape much stronger. The toothpicks measure how thick the concrete should be put on.



A primer is put on before fixing the mosaic.



The slabs of mosaic is loosely taped together and put where I've measured them to be. I leave spaces inbetween the slabs where I fit in the final mosaic pieces. The first black shape is almost finished but on the larger white there is still a lot of work left to be done. Fun but frantic work these days.

My work still looks mostly concrete gray, here is some color
Lina Peterson, jewellery artist, about color pink

signs of the time

A collection of just a few of all the pretty shop signs from the Gambia trip.

Today Galleri hnoss opens the Hanna Hedman jewellery show and also the possibility to shop online: www.konstepidemin.se/hnoss

I'm off to see all the openings at Konstepidemin today.
Those in Lidköping can visit David Carlsson's opening at Galleri Pannrummet, Rörstrands center. Or his website www.dceramic.se

To all a fun weekend!

i love snow

It's just so rare we have a long period of white snow here on the West coast, like we have right now. For weeks I've been grateful for all the light it brings and soak it in for gloomy days to come.

At Konstepidemin this year's first gallery openings happen on Saturday 16 Jan.
Hanna Hedman jewellery artist is one
here are the rest: www.konstepidemin.se click "press"

improvement, finally

Not until the little pieces came out I found the direction. I have used all kinds of escapes and excuses from working with the pieces for Stockholm Furniteure Fair. Now it's only weeks left and I'm in a hurry. But in a happy hurry.

Mia Mäkilä lowbrow and horror art
som också har en blogg på svenska

from darkness to light - happy new year!

Love and light over all the new, whatever comes! May 2010 be a year of only goodness for us all.

Over Christmas we went from this...















to this... Best celebration in a long time. Spent Christmas on the beach, playing football with a young team in Brufut, Gambia, West Africa. Light, warm, fun, the best winter break. Returned with eyes filled with color, ready to get back to work. No resolutions for the year to come, but one: Take care.

South African Clementina van der Walt, lovely useful things
Slipcast; so many ceramic blogs to discover!

early christmas

The most christmassy photos I found are from last year up north, visiting friends with a good sense of glitter. I'll check out for an early Christmas this year. Wish you all a wonderful holiday, full of warmth, in all ways!

Listen to this voice! Anna von Hausswolf
Good Christmas gift (for Swedes) Frälsningsarméns julklappsapparat