More Markku Salo's Arabian Nights-bottles

Markku Salo's popular red Arabian Nights-bottles arrived to our
Christmas market. We also got couple of lovely white ones.

JEWELLERY ARTIST OF THE MONTH: DECEMBER

Märta Mattsson




Märta Mattsson-Teeth

"Märta Mattsson is a young jewellery artist from Sweden.
She graduated from HDKSchool of Design and Craft in Gothenburg
and is currently studying at the Royal College of Art in London.
Märta is an openminded artist who makes exciting and strongly
intriguing jewellery. Her pieces are based on the tension that exists
between attraction and repulsion. Memories and experiences from
her childhood as well as nature are her source of inspiration. She
translates her bizarre fantasies in a unique way. Her jewellery speaks
its own and strong language which makes the viewer to marvel over
there oddity."

Francisca Bauzá Förster

LATE NIGHT (S)HOPPING 3.12 and Christmas market

Late night shopping till 21.00! Welcome to christmasglögi!

Leena Juvonen-Beyond the Glance

26.11. – 9.1.2009

"I am used to search shapes and surfaces from environment. That was my only
plan also in Guldagergaard. Usually I am seeking something manmade, but with
the surface that is like smoothed by nature, like marks of water, rust, sun and wind.
Using plaster moulds I try to reach something between nature and manmade. I
need the presence of a human in the form, but there is charm in nature mould
surfaces that attracts me.

That’s what I have found in wood firing. The kiln finishes the surface, like it would
have been made without hands or tools. First I took the moulds of the stones in the
yard, but they were too organic for me. The right combination I got from the concrete
plate on the back of the studio. I enjoyed working outside on the grass grey birds singing
around.

Still the content of my work is in the pictures. I use iron oxide from printers ink to
make decals from photographs on clay. Theme of my series “Beyond the Glance”
concern about connections and communication."

Leena Juvonen

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