I've been busy

I've been busy doing one more sketch work for a competition. It is my ceramic wet dream, honestly, a swim bath, in Växjö. This time it didn't come true, fully, but I will get the chance to test some ideas in real life. I will make a part of the larger commission, in a mix of mosaic and tiles. Maria Ängkvist Klyvare will make the walls in the rehab swimming pool rooms. Not a bad choice!

And I will keep on waiting for the total swim bath commission to come my way...To be part of a sketch commission like this feels like getting a grant and time to develop ideas.

Morten Löbner Espersen have an exhibition in Berlin:
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goodbye 2011 - welcome 2012

Some say 2011 was a crappy year but I don't really agree. A lot of confusion and energy much too fragmented in wrong directions, a lot of changes, yes, but not that bad after all.

I welcome the new opportunities that the new year brings :) All the best for us all; Happy New Year! I wish for focus and clarity, joy and light.

One highlight from 2011 above: a long walk in the woods up north a hot Midsummer Day. It's only half a year away.

Fireworks by Cai Guo-Qiang: Black ceremony
Exhibition at Arab Museum of Mosern art in Qatar

Happy holidays!

Wish you all a Christmas full of joy and peace and love!

This year will be a city holiday, I look forward to relax a lot! And also find time to do all the little things that lie around waiting for attention. I wish you find the time to do what you need the most, too!

Thank you so much Ida Lindberg for the supertasty knäck! If there was only one left i would have posted a photo...

about time for rabbits

So, this is one of the things I've been busy with, a commission for a nursing home for elderly people, with dementia. And it will keep me busy all spring, I'm so happy.

It is an inner yard that was already planned by the landscape architects. It is accessible for wheel chairs, all the plants are in flowerbeds raised from the ground.

I saw the drawing as a baroque garden and played around with the ornaments and elements. The yellow shapes will be made in mosaic, the same level as the plants. They can be seen from above as well and one can put a cup of coffee on top. I will make a blue ceramic border to the mid rectangle and most surprising to me; two rabbits jumped up from somewhere and wanted to join. They will be ceramic but I wish there could be live rabbits with soft fur to stroke, as well.

It's been interesting to read the research about perception of people with dementia, their world is a bit different and there are rules to follow not to confuse them. Contrast, clear colours, no smallscale patterns, figurative before abstract in short.

Thank you Charlotta Klingström, for telling me to update! Preparations are time consuming this time of the year, it's easy to run too fast. Camera is full of photos meant for the blog.

Sad ladies

Friday evening was the big event "Kulturnatta" here in Göteborg, one big social and cultural happening all over the city all night. I stayed at one place only, very conveniant as so many friends passed by while I sat comfortably on my barstool :)

Lots of Göteborg artists donated work that was all exhibited and sold to support "Faktum", a local magazine supporting the homeless. Read more here, and links to all artists:
www.d-i-y.se/DIY/Medverkande_Konstnarer.html

I am now the lucky owner of two very sad looking watercolor ladies by Amalia Kenamets.

Alexandra Hedberg was there, both with artwork and in person, look...

a day in the park

In the park nearby, Slottskogen. We've had summer again for a couple of days :)

Karin Karinson Nilsson ceramics - Objects of desire - a window show at Sintra right now.  Also Åsa Greaker (but I can't find a good link for her so you must go there and see yourself).
Karin Östberg in the gallery.

packing in and packing up

The exhibition at Nääs, about sustainable building, is over. We have emptied our mini cottage. The Östersund exhibition is also over. Studio chaos, boxes everywhere.

Reena Kallat, India - one of the artists in the ongoing Gothenburg International Art Biennial
So far I've only seen half of it but there is still time, until November :)