Barr

the black and pink series # 2

2012-02-24T09:54:00.002-08:00

tiger

2012-02-13T15:10:00.002-08:00

the black and pink series

2012-02-13T13:27:00.001-08:00

stockholm furniture fair

2012-02-13T13:03:00.001-08:00

Now i almost find my way around södermalm, i went to see some of my favorite photographers. In my room where i slept the polarbears looked after me, i met a new friend, and bought some records to put on our shelfs, but mostly i just longed to return home to Rude, and i did yesterday, what a feeling.

When it comes to the fair, i dont have much to say, it gave me some, but not in the way i first thougt. sometimes the opposite of things are good to.

it´s getting closer

2012-01-24T04:57:00.001-08:00

see more here

four little foxes hiding

2012-01-11T11:18:00.000-08:00

a boy named cyrry and the green dress

2012-01-07T07:00:00.001-08:00

things a have bought at myrorna

once upon a time, a project

2012-01-07T06:05:00.000-08:00

this is a character from my on-going schoolwork called "once upon a time.."

aki kaurismäki

2012-01-04T10:40:00.000-08:00

we saw this film by aki kaurismäki last week, i just love the sceenery and the characters.

interior of the 50´s

2012-01-02T06:34:00.001-08:00

locking for inspiration during these gray and misty days of january and i love the colours and the shapes of these homes from the 50´s.

We had a great new years eve, lots of fun with lost of people, now back to school, a new year and new challanges, I could need some more rest but i supose it will have to wait until the summer, it seems so far away right now..the sun, the birds and the green grass..

i got this in the mail box today, hurray.

woods

2011-12-31T03:16:00.001-08:00

boris

2011-12-31T03:13:00.000-08:00

Boris and his imaginary friend..

present

2011-12-31T03:07:00.001-08:00

this poster was my present for my self this chrismas, now it just needs a frame.

to celebrate a day in gothenburg

2011-12-23T09:24:00.000-08:00

Two years ago in May when our mom turned 47 she got a trip to Gothenburg with her 3 children, that trip didnt happend untill last weekend. Better late than never.. So on Saturday the 17. dec we took our mom ( me and my brother emil and sister emelie) to Gothenburg, the weather wasnt the best, but we had a great time. We made a visit to the museum of nature history (I dont know the name in english) it´s an old museum that contains hundreds of diffrent stuffed and percerved animals, I really like this place, its a bit creapy, dusty and old, and it smells funny.. They have this big bluewhale in one of the rooms, it scares and facinates me at the same time. After the museumvisit we went to a place called Haga, its an old part of the city with old wooden houses, there it was a christmasmarket going on and lost of lost of people, in the evening we ate dinner at a restaurant named Tranquilo, it was very tasty..mmmmm. and then we saw the movie Hysterica , it was fun, i can recomend it.

Thank you mom for waiting so long for your present, i had a great time!

a day at home.

2011-12-23T08:27:00.001-08:00

i love my new camera..

traces

2011-12-23T07:23:00.001-08:00

traces of couloring and printing in the lab at school, we had two weeks of experimenting with diffrent techniques, my resoult is a textile fairytale..ill show it later.

today is the first day in ages that i have some time of..feels good.

girl, dog, house

2011-12-14T00:30:00.000-08:00

a new friend

2011-12-11T11:38:00.000-08:00

this is my new friend,a Canon 5D, i think our friendship will wonderful. hopefully i will soon have some time to show pictures...

the book is here!

2011-12-08T04:23:00.000-08:00

its finally here, the morran book by Camilla Engman!

im sad to tell you that her dog Morran has past away recently,

she will live on through the images in the book.

thank you Morran and Camilla.

Hard workin´

2011-11-27T10:54:00.001-08:00

Im a hard working woman right now and dont get much time off to do some writing here or anything else thats isnt´ schoolwork just now, hopefully it will slow down after christmas...

the swedish school of texlite: christmasmarket

2011-11-24T02:30:00.000-08:00

welcome to our christmas market the 3-4th december in Gothenburg! at tredjelånggatan Rum 26

pattern: vilja

2011-11-13T09:30:00.001-08:00

I made a pattern, I named it Vilja. The pattern will be on a poster promoting our x-mas market in Gothenburg the 3-4 dec.

Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir

2011-11-09T07:44:00.000-08:00

This years winner of the Nordic award in textile: Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir.

I just listened to her lecture in the museum of textiles this afternoon and tomorrow i will visit the vernisage, it will be a good break in all the schoolwork. Its been long days and nights with diffrent school projects now for a while and its not getting less...

colour and shape

2011-11-07T13:11:00.001-08:00

the Morran book

2011-10-26T05:38:00.001-07:00

This is my contribution to the Morran book wich is a projekt run by the lovely artist Camilla Engman. You can send in your picture of her dog Morran and then a jury will pick out some pictures to finnaly be printed in a Morran book, all the profits from the book will go to charity, such a great idea! So now i just have to hold my fingers crossed that my picture will be chosen as one among others for the book. =)

Mumrik, the winning carpet!

2011-10-26T05:16:00.000-07:00

so here it is! MUMRIK the handwoven carpet! my contribution to the Stockholm furniture fair in 2012! still only sketches but i will soon start to weave it in school, it will probably be many late nights sitting with the loom, but im really loocking forward to it! =)

the carpet will be woven in natural materials, doft and hard, and then i will print a pattern on it with screenprint.

Hurray!

2011-10-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

My contribution to the Stockholm furniture fair in 2012 made it past the jury! Im going to make a handwoven carpet with hard and soft natural materials and then print on it with a pattern, its called Mumrik and i´ll show scetches of the carpet tomorrow! Im So Happy!!!! =) yay!

Virginia and the bookcovers

2011-10-22T14:09:00.000-07:00

jockum

2011-10-16T12:26:00.000-07:00

another favorite of mine.

Jockum Nordström

I want

2011-10-11T14:10:00.001-07:00

as soon as possible i will order this calender from Camilla Engman.

you can find it here

Going away

2011-09-29T03:36:00.000-07:00

im going to Norway for a few days, so long!

details from home

2011-09-17T10:29:00.000-07:00

the blue pineapple is my latest contribution to our home, i like it a lot..

"the weave fair"

2011-09-17T10:05:00.001-07:00

This weekend the Weave fair takes places in Borås, the hometown of the swedish shool of textiles, i just went to one exhibition at the museum of textile and with my bad camera i manage to get some photos (im soon getting a new camera, hurray!)

I really like the Rya rug, (dont know what its called in english) and i think im going to give this technique a try in a projekt soon..

And these three are made by 3 of my talented classmates

Necklace by Linnea N

Dress by Malin B

Kimono by Josefina T

Windy times

2011-09-13T11:19:00.001-07:00

there´s windy times outside the house, its cracking and banging on the wooden walls, the rain is hard and the yellow leaves are blowing of their branshes. the autumn has really come for real now..no turning back, i like it sometimes but its also a bit sad.. in shool we learn about knitting , i will show some of that another time and at the same time our little class of 7 people are working on a project, sometimes you need to play as well, i think its important to set your mind free to get some new inspiration, during the lectures these figures ends up on paper.. a bit dark and mysterius, but with playfullness twinkling behind their eyes... hugely inspired by the moomins ofcourse, I just read the "moomin fathers memoir", i recomend it to all people , any age!

cross word

2011-09-05T11:57:00.000-07:00

Cy Twombly

2011-09-05T02:30:00.001-07:00

many times the most simple can be the most beautiful, and the most hard to create..

caravan textiles

2011-09-05T02:00:00.001-07:00

saturday night we slept in this caravan

when i woke up i saw this..and i like it..

illustrated ladies

2011-08-31T00:24:00.000-07:00

found via Illustrated Ladies tumblr

Miroslav Tichý

2011-08-30T23:39:00.000-07:00

i just found this photographer via this blog

he uses homemade cameras when he takes his photos of women.

the three corners

2011-08-30T10:26:00.000-07:00

Family # 2

2011-08-30T05:43:00.000-07:00

the first photo is of my mother Lisbeth (to the left) and her sister Ingela. the second one is of my grandmother Brittmarie on a restaurant in the sexties and tha last image is of my aut Ingela on the knee of her great-grandmother,one of the picture hanging on the wall behind them now hangs on the wall in our bedroom, its funny how things travel...

Finlandia

2011-08-30T05:18:00.001-07:00

poetic pictures of the finnish landscape in the Book: Finlandia by Reino Kalliola

"Hopdragssömmar"

2011-08-30T05:00:00.000-07:00

sometimes things are just beautiful, like this book i have about "Hopdragssömmar"

dark pieces

2011-08-30T04:27:00.001-07:00

i have seen many programs about the universe lately, it´s amazing and frightening at the same time...

Erik Kessels

2011-08-30T03:51:00.000-07:00

He is a dutch artist that among other things collects found images and put´s them toghether in new ways, in that way he is giving them new purpuse. Its intressting how images can be seen in a new way if uou just take it out of its context. Today we are feed everyday with images everywhere, without really stop and look what the really show, I a documentary about Kessels and it was really intresting, it made me think about and reflect over how i see images my self.
you can find his books here i would like my self to have the box of "almost in every picture"- vol 1-5
and homepage here

Application patterns

2011-08-28T11:08:00.000-07:00

As i was cleaning my studio today (again) i found these " patterns" that i made on the application day for school more than a year ago, The task was to paint a fruit according to diffrent tasks and to make a small collection patterns. At the time i had never in my life done a pattern and didn´t know how to do, but i kind of like how it came out. my fruit of choice was a Dragonfruit, a pink (suprice!) ang green fruit with white flesh inside and small black seeds. its not a good tasting fruit but it sure is satisfying for the eye.

So tomorrow its schoolstart and a new year filled with hard work and ups and downs, second year and i wonder how the first class students fel toningt, maybe a little nervous, i know i was a year ago. But we will do our best to make them feel welcome =) and its gonna be alot of fun seeing the classmates again!

pieces

2011-08-27T12:04:00.001-07:00

putting pieces together...

i woke up with thunder outside the window this morning, i dont like thunderstorms and it would not seem to end so I stayed inside the whole day, im trying to clean my studio but it takes time , everytime i start to poke about in some pile of papers i find things to make into little illustrations or collages, like these, so i´ll continue cleaning tomorrow..and on monday school starts again.

old japanese prints

2011-08-27T07:52:00.000-07:00

these old japanese woodenprints i have a whole book about, i find the coulors and patterns inspiring

neil young: this town

2011-08-26T03:41:00.001-07:00

Neil Young
Get More:
Neil Young, MTV Hive

schoolwork: patterns

2011-08-25T12:49:00.000-07:00

2 patterns from my hotel-collection "Bare"

Alvin Lustig

2011-08-25T11:54:00.000-07:00

and his bookcovers

My studio

2011-08-25T11:31:00.000-07:00

here are some pictures of my very very very messy studio that i occupy in on of the rooms of our home.

Märta Måås-Fjetterström

2011-08-25T10:41:00.000-07:00

and her lovely woven carpets .find more here

family

2011-08-25T10:22:00.000-07:00

finding old pictures with members of the family

this is Daniels grandfather´s band , and its the cat that is named Linus Larsson

looking through my grandparents dusty albums and these 4 pictures caught my eye

designer donna wilson

2011-08-24T16:55:00.000-07:00

Another designer i really like is Donna wilson, i like her childish expression and the playfulness
in her work

You find her here

tove and her creatures

2011-08-24T16:37:00.000-07:00

The day that i have children im for sure going to read them these books of Tove Jansson for nitetime stories. Its something magic about the Moomins, its mystic and poetic..hard to describe..it just grabs you and wont let go

and the illustrations is something out of this world

nudes and not

2011-08-24T16:03:00.001-07:00

pages from my sketchbook

2011-08-24T15:38:00.001-07:00

finding things and giving them a new life

2011-08-24T13:57:00.001-07:00

One of my favourite things to do is go to fleamarkets whenever its possible.But with a house allready filled with old "junk" and no more room for new stuff, Ivé started to look for smaller things, things on paper, its a new hobbie to look through the piles of old photos and prints, stashed away, forgotten.. This summer i stumbeld across these pieces wich i took with me home, no clue what i would do with them at firts, but then i gave them new lives..A found photo is always a mistery ,you cant help but wonder about the people on them..make up a story or just give them a new name ..

I found a big collection of prints from old boxes of matches

a old book with collection of wild animals

a diary

"gentelmen in the snow"

"sneeking"

"red bull"

"She is hiding"

"He is hiding "

"ett lynne"