I am a Swedish artist, now based in the UK, and I have a great love of books and book illustration as well as decorative art, and an interest in applying illustration to enrich the everyday world around us.
Folklore, mysticism and literary classics are great inspirations for my personal initiatives, which are also informed by my past in science and agriculture, and growing up surrounded by nature.
Projects
- Three selected adventures of Sherlock HolmesThis project consists of three illustrations and one cover design, focusing on Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic tales. Each illustration goes with one story, and aim to capture a portayal of the central character to each arch. The stories are (in order of appearance): A Scandal in Bohemia, The Musgrave Ritual and The Man with the Twisted Lip.
- Of Dragons and CranesFeaturing an adaption of the folk tale "King Lindworm", Of Dragons and Cranes is a book of nine main illustrations as well as a number of decorative images. The content is presented first as an artist book. With a near to A3 format and loose pages the aim is to challenge the conventional reading experience and create a ritual of storytelling in text and image. The cover is made with laser cut (oak stained) birch plywood and mirror gold acrylic. The tale and illustrations have also been adapted into a traditional hardback volume, which includes a short appendix with details about the flora and fauna featured in the book's decorative elements.
- 20 000 Leagues Under the SeaThis version of Jules Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea explores how stories can be told through a combination of text and image, where neither describes the other but both drive the narrative forward. With the narrative deconstructed and the tactile The book features several fold out pages and inserts and the signatures have been hand-stitched together to allow for feature pages and spreads. The cover is made from laser cut and engraved clear acrylic to aim for a sense of depth and to evoke an idea of the sea
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Work history
Skills
- Art
- Drawing
- Digital Illustration
- Book Illustration
- Editorial Illustration
- Illustration
- Typography
- Craft
- Photoshop
- Adobe Indesign
Education
BA (hons) IllustrationUniversity for the Creative Arts
- United Kingdom
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Art and Design FoundationVästerås Konstskola
- Sweden