Last Day in Svolvær

My last full day in Svolvær. 

My last night in Svolvær.

Had tea and cookies with Lotta and then everyone came to join us! A couple who traveled all over the world sat with us and poured us all small glasses of whiskey and gave us some cookies. We all sat and talked for hours. The single malt whiskey was so strong, I could only have very few sips. The couple talked for hours about energies and chakras. 

I think it was a good ending here, I started here all by myself and I spend my last night with a group of people and even some friends I have made. 

It makes me happy.

Some informal shots of some of the work I produced while at the Kunstnerhuset. 

Expedition of Printmakers

Today I went to see the "Expedition of Printmakers" at the Kunstnersenter. Saw Cecilia, Tine, Maria, and Thor, (and more I have met previously but for the life of me can't recall their names!). I was able to speak with so many artists and was invited to some more openings, one on Sunday at Thor's Gallery in Kabelvåg.
The artists who worked on the expedition of printmakers were from Norway and Poland, their work really complimented each other. There were woodcuts, etchings, and some other processes I wasn't as familiar with.

The Artists at the Exhibit

Found at a site about the show

A piece from the show, I can't find the name of the artist though, 

(found here) 

It is a linocut though, which totally blew my mind because of how the detailing was with the lines.

By Elisabeth Alsos Strand "Passasje II"

By Marta Bozyk, Lofoten II

By Janne Juvi Rasmussen "Dancing in Zakopane"

Janne was staying at the Kunstnerhuset as well, I didn't get to see her when I left and walked back but she was very kind, I thoroughly enjoyed talking to her.

Tine and her trip to Mongolia

Today I went and met with Tine Lundkvist and was able to speak with her about her work for nearly two hours. She recently went on a trip to Mongolia and was making art pertaining to her trip. A lot had to do with the sound of the place, the train tracks and the rhythms. She had recently had a show where she had written her entire trip on a copperplate, printed it (so it came out backwards), and hung these very large prints as sort of curtains in a row while playing the rhythms of Mongolia in the background, really wish I had been able to see the show. She did show me a piece of the show and played the "sounds" for me so I got a general feeling for it, but I know it would have been much grander to see it as she had wanted it when it was on display. She also went through all her paintings and showed them to me. It was really interesting because she had so many large scale paintings, a lot of them seemed to portray landscape mixed with emotions, and a bit of darkness, maybe the darkness of the winter there I have yet to experience. When I left she gave me some herbs from her garden.

By Tine Lundkvist

By Tine Lundkvist