Inspiration no2

When I paint I think of works I've seen of Mark Rothko, Inger Wallertz, Birgitta Bengtson och Linnéa Rygaard. I like their choice of colour, the sometimes transparency in colour and the forms/shapes they create in their paintings.

My new studio

Finally I've found a place to paint.

This is the old stables at my dads farm.

Some sweeping and vacuumcleaning did the trick, I like it!



Unique bags - Design Lotta Karlsson and Maria Eriksson Rydén

Unique bags

(swe: unika tygväskor, unika tygkassar, unika tygpåsar)

Only one bag of each appearence exist.

Design Lotta Karlsson (the ones with pictures)

and Lotta Karlsson and Maria Eriksson Rydén (the ones with text).

SEK 150 per each.

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Preview no 2: Unique Bags, Upcoming exhibition Hunnebostrands Konstmagasin

Unique bags, only one of each exist. The pictures are my own photographs and paintings/drawings.

Welcome to the opening of Hunnebostrands Konstmagasin on Friday 1st of July at 18 pm!



A preview of my upcoming exhibitions

Three photos from a work I've named "Nature takes back", 2009-2010.

Exhibition no 1: Munkedal Municipal Office Forum 17th of June - 8th of July 2011. Open Weekdays 08.00-16.30. Welcome!

Exhibition no 2: Hunnebostrands Konstmagasin, Lökholmsvägen 25 in Hunnebostrand 1th of July - 31th of July 2011. Open Every day 17.00-20.00. Contributing artists: Birgitta Bengtson, Jan Bergh, Ingebjörg Hansen, Lotta Karlsson, Thomas Nilsson, Ulrika Norén and Linnéa Rygaard. Welcome!

Upcoming exhibitions

Svarteborgs Stencenter, Dingle, 22th-24th of April 2011: Together with Lisbeth Aldegren, Lukas Arons, Ewa Bander, Karl Chilcott, Kristoffer Foss, Sanna Gising and Gunilla Segelod.

Galleri Håfors, Hedekas, 22th-25th of April 2011: Together with my schoolmates at Gerlesborg School of Fine Art Bohuslän.

Gerlesborg School of Fine Art Bohuslän 21th-25th of April 2011: Together with my schoolmates at Gerlesborg School of Fine Art Bohuslän.

Gerlesborg School of Fine Art Bohuslän 7th-18th of May 2011: Together with my schoolmates at Gerlesborg School of Fine Art Bohuslän.

Forum, Munkedal, June 2011: My second solo exhibition.

Drawings from this week

Juried exhibitions 2010 and 2009: Bohussalongen

Above 1-3: Bohussalongen 2011, above 4: Bohussalongen 2010.

Rolig och seriös konstblogg: Camilla Engman

Camilla Engman
http://camillaengman.blogspot.com/

Inspiration: Paul Klee

A painting I'm working on right now

Works from autumn 2009: Paraphrasing Pierre-Louis Piersons photographs of the Comtess of Castiglione

These works are from a course in paraphrasing we had at Gerlesborg School of Fine Art last in autumn 2009. I chosed to paraphrase Pierre-Louis Pierson's photographs of the Comtess og Castiglione.

Facts about her from Wikipedia: She was born Virginia Oldoini in Tuscany, Italy. She married Francesco Verasis, conte di Castiglione in Italy when she was 17. The comtess achieved notoriety as a mistress of Napoleon III of France, which resulted in a divorce from her husband. During her romance with Napoleon III she met the photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson who photographed the royal court. She wanted him to take pictures of her so that her beauty could be preserved in the photographs. Her poses in many of the photographs were concidered dary in its time. For example her gaze in the camera and photographs of her bare legs.

I saw the picture with the mirror the first time when we had a art history lesson at Gerlesborg. What I liked about the picture was that she by looking in the mirror meets the eye of the beholder and not by looking directly in the camera. When we had the course in paraphrasing I then started to experiment myself and learning how to set my digital camera so that I could achive the same light as in these old photographs. Since theres a hugh difference between photographing then and now I only used natural daylight to somehow get the same feeling.