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Published 5. januar 2022

2022 TexNet2

First: Happy New Year to everyone! Let us make the best of 2022, Corvid or not!

In 2018 I was invited by Juliette Eckel to become part of the Texnet 2 group.We are an international group of 20 textile artists from Europe, Canada, Australia and USA. For more than 2 years we have been working together on a project, a «textile calendar», communicating on Facebook and getting to know each other better through our work. The result is an extraordinary exhibition with 365 artworks of the sizes 15 x 15, 32 x 15 and 32 x 32. Additionally a second calendar was created by 12 of the artists who did large pieces of 90 x 150 cm for the twelve months. We chose dates and our own theme. My works are all, in one way or another, based on the words of Jon Fosse.

We first exhibited our fabulous project at EPM France, @ European Patchwork &Textile Tour Alasace France in September 2021. In May 2022 our exhibition will be shown at the Nadelwelt in Karlsruhe.

Throughout the year I will present my contribution, first January :

January 7th. «Nothing», 15×15 cm.

Is about a big and white nothing, see nothing hear nothing.

and January 23rd: «The snow that was», 32×32 cm.

About standing under a lamp post watching the snow fall.

It is impossible for me to translate Jon Fosse’s poetry so I will present what triggered my inspiration.

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Published 19. juli 2020

Another month gone

We have passed summer solstice, and winter is comming (in a few months). With the speed of the passing days, that is not so far away. The society has started to open, people are on holidays, even abroad. Nobody knows what the autumn will bring. The Health Institute warn about a new breakout of Corona in the autumn, so we’d better be prepared.

In the meantime, life goes on. My theme for the June book was of course the Summer solstice, and we had some really hot days. So my book is filled with suns! Or circles in different sizes and yellow colours, even the spine is yellow. And I could use this varigated yellow thread I dyed ages ago but could not find use for.

the front:

This print with compressed sponge at the back reminds me so much of close up photos of the sun:

I also finally got back my entry for the Norwegian National Quilting competition. I did not win, but that is ok. I got a chance for a feedback from fellow quilters.

My quilt is a hommage to my favorite flower in the garden, Meconopsis betonicifolia, when the sun is out and it opens the flowers, it is just «Days Like This»

Some years ago I got some of my photos printed on cotton at Fingerprints, Laura Kemshall. This is one, surrounded by rust dyed fabric. Machine and hand quilted and embroidered.

I made a second one, using another photo, also printed at Fingerprints, this one is surrounded by eco dyed fabric, machine and hand quilted and embroidered. This is called «That Day»:

I hope you have enjoyed this little update from my studio. Take care and keep distance.

Published 20. juni 2020

I Love Tulips!

I really love tulips with their many shapes patterns and colours. And May in my garden was filled with tulips. I first fell in love with the flower when I read about the history of tulips and my home town Bergen.

A young Doctor, Henrik Höjer, travelled to the University of Leiden, Holland to take his examen. There he met and befriended Charles de L’Ecluse. When he moved back to Bergen three years later, 1596, he brought with him many bulbs and thus introduced the tulip to Norway. He continued to receive bulbs from Charles de L’Ecluse for years to come.

There even is a tulip that only exist in Norway, named Tulipa norvegica.

So it was natural for me to use tulips as my theme for the May book. I picked up all my tulip stamps and sprayed, printed and draw tulips on a big sheet of paper:

After cutting it up and made a book of it the result is like this:

I have also working on some ideas from my design wall, trying to get together some new quilts. Back on my Dragonfly theme, this first one is a piece of paper used to blot of some printing and painting:

I thought it would be a great background for some machine embroidery, so I bonded it to wadding, and surrounded it with strips of old sari-silk. I have never used paper in my works before, so this is a try and learn. Will the paper hold all the stitching from the machine embroidery? Time will show. It is up on the design wall while I figure out how to proceed.

The next one has been waiting for a year for me to proceed. I tried to bleach the sari strips used, but it didn’t work, so I painted it instead. The dragonfly is free machine stitched, and painted as well. Now I have to deal with the background, what to do next.

As you see, they can end up well or be total failures. Time will show.

I hope you have enjoyed this glipse into my creative life.

Enjoy your summer, keep distance and be safe.

Published 4. september 2014

Two more Journalquilts

Just a short note to show you my last two Journal-quilts. The first, for July, is inspired by our road-trip this summer, and the pink – blue wild Lupins along the way: