happy midsummer!

This is the heaviest book I've ever held: The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellers 2008. 13,5 kilo, 2400 pages where 1044 jewellery artists from 54 nations present themselves, nominated by jewellery artists. An amazing idea and I will visit Mona Wallström's studio (she's in it and thus has it) many times too look more. Once is not enough.
Read more at Darling publications

This blog seems to have taken early holidays, let's see for how long.
Happy midsummer to all!

the smaller details

Thank you so much for the hoorays, I really appreciate it!
I'm in the post work mood, when it's almost difficult to understand the job is done. Fixed with updating my website and made albums as therapy. Really useful and for free here
http://jalbum.net

More photos from Lidköping ceamic wall here
Work process here

I hope to have more time to look at what others do now. At Konstepidemin the HDK bachelor students fill the galleries, looks promising
HDK bachelor students presentations, click each name

it's up in Lidköping

Photos by Richard

Three o'clock on Thursday we finally sat down, me and the excellent bricklayer Fredrik. We were pretty content when looking at the finished wall piece in the refurbished entrance of the hospital in Lidköping. I'll post a few photos here (thanks to Richard, I took only blurry photos of the final result myself) and come back with more details later. I'm tired and happy, now is time to rest.

almost there

Photos from last days work, frantic. Almost finished, hope to be all finished by end of this week, wish me luck.

Yesterday I gained some sense of control. Realized that I had transformed worries over the result to being stressed over the tight timeschedule. Still, I don't have much time but feel more relaxed. Rearranged all the pieces outside the studio, Ami gave a good eye, thank you! As always, it's at the very end of a work process the new ideas arrive. Like an inbuilt carrot to keep you continue.

Ami also did a good job cleaning the studio yesterday (again thank you!) because on Saturday 30.5 we have the annual Open Day at Konstepidemin, see the whole program here.
Most welcome!

hurra!

As I say, I'm hopelessly behind, still on last weekend. Tillt (new name for the former Skådebanan) had a lovely party to celebrate their new office. Rooftop ceremony, cakes and champagne; couldn't have been better.
Tillt works to bridge between the arts and workplaces and support the creative processes. Over the last years they've run a successfull artist-in-residence program but also come up with new ideas how these different cultures can get connected and made useful for each other. Hurra and good luck!
www.tillt.se

Last weekend I also got to meet Marie-Louise from Uppsala, amazing how blog world suddenly is alive and present. This weekend will mean studio work, strangely enough I find this phase of the work peaceful even if I really should feel more stressed. Maria at Konstepidemin took some photos in the studio yesterday, I don't look organized. Enjoy your weekend!

after rain...

...comes sun. After work comes coffee break. The cups are from a porcelain print and paint collaboration some years ago, by studio partner Ami Lanmark and illustrator/painter Annmari Olsson (she is very funny).

Lidköping printing ladies

It's been a long week, I double office and studio; no time for blogging.

Catching up; these two brave ladies, Iréne Magnusson and Inger Franzén-Storm, deserves their post. Instead of changing their jobs when Rörstrand factory was closed they bought the whole Rörstrand printshop with all equipment and materials and started on their own. Now they make ceramic transfer prints on special orders from their former employer and from independent designers and artists. They can do everything from the original work to print and decoration.

They also kept the old example collection from the Rörstand days, a cultural heritage. Touching examples of high and low.

Their website is in Swedish only, contact them for prices (decent pricing, a start cost for every print and after that price per sheet)
www.printdesign.se