Valencia part 2

Here is a few more pictures from "Mots, brots i gargots" in the Cold Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden of Valencia. I didn't get so many good photos.
Ana is still in Barcelona, but I'm sure she'll soon have more pictures up on her blog.

the Botanical Garden of Valencia

To have your workplace in a botanical garden, I could easily get used to it.
It was almost perfect but one thing could have been better - instead of a lots of cats there could have been lots of dogs.

"I plant a kiss on my grandad's wrinkled cheek,
a cheek like a ploughed field and rain.
We pick up poppy buds and we open them side by side,
guessing what colours April might hide."
Gemma Martí O'Toole

I am leaving

Very very early tomorrow (I would call it tonight ;) I'm leaving for Valencia.
I'm going to Valencia to meet Ana and Marta to set our show (illustrations and poems) "Mots, brots i gargots" in the Cold Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden of Valencia. The Opening is on April 27 and the show is up until June 30.

I'll be back next week :)

Distant Friends in Portugal

The opening of Distant Friends in Lisbon. Ana has more pictures on her blog.
Here we are, Ana, Camilla, Ana and João

CPS (Centro Português de Serigrafia)

Finally meeting the people from CPS! They showed me the print workshop and I got to meet all the people that had been working on my prints, they've done a tremendously good job. We had a great and long lunch before it was time for signing. They made the screenprints for me and Ana, on fabric (maybe you remember, they were made for our exhibition in Bologna a year ago).

The two screenprints are based on these two paper collage/drawings - Mountain dress and Inside outside - I'll show them later I just have to take some decent photos of them first.

Lisbon

I'm on my way to Lisbon, Portugal.
Ana and I will have an exhibition together at Centro Português de Serigrafia no CCB (a map and more info in portuguese here). The show opens now on thursday at 18:30, we'll both be there and you are more than welcome!

Distant Friends

I've finally got a copy of each of these screenprints/emroidery! They just need a little bit of ironing. They are from Ana Ventura's and my collaboration - Distant Friends.

Today I had the honour to meet Cinzia and Antonino :)

Read my it-list over at SF Girl By Bay.

The opening of Distant Friends

Before the storm...



...and during the storm :) It was crowded!

I talked with so many people and at the same time I didn't have time to talk to anyone, you know how it is. It was a great but crazy evening!!

Here are a few more persons I met:
Just before leaving, and way to short, Mariana Massarani
Beatrice Alemagna made me very happy by buying one of my drawings :) She told me she is planning something with Jockum Nordström, can't wait to see what that will be!
Long time web-friends - Natascha Rosenberg and Blanca Helga
Carll Cneut (Carll, you have to update your website!)
Cecilia Ramieri
Harriet Russell who had a brand new book ready for the fair.
Ana Castagnoli
Adolfo Serra
Violeta Lupiz
Mina, Aurora, Cristina and Violetta.
I know it was many more... but right now I can't remember... my apologies.

Ana also had an opening , the evening before, for her latest book "Nine stories about love"

We are ready for the opening

I took the strangest photos to show the exhibition... here is a few of them. Doesn't say much :)

Hanging in Hamelin

This is the way to Hamelin Associazone Culturale, you can hear the birds singing and someone practicing the piano. We, Ana and I, had a lot of great help from people at the Hamelin to hang the exhibition, like Guilia, Sarah, Alessandra, Alberto and Roberta. A special thanks to Valerio, who kindly enough, came by and helped us. Thanks to all the help we were ready just in time, three rooms took about three days to get ready.

Let's start working

Ana and I sent a lot of things back and forth to each other for this exhibition. We used the envelopes and photos of the process to make two houses.

Wet sandwich

I am not sure if it is because I am swedish or if it is because I am who I am, but here is my first breakfast in Bologna - I chose between the poor sandwiches I see. But those portuguese people (Ana and her parents, José and Joselinda) know how to do it, I can hear a lot of chatter and soon they have lovely fresh sandwiches to eat... I decided to never order before them again.

I started my visit the night before this poor breakfast, with a fun dinner with Paolo from Topipittori, whom I am so pleased to finally have met in person, and the very sweet couple Paola and Luca from Notari Publishing (which happens to be the swedish illustrator/writer Emma Adbåge's publisher).

I'm back from Bologna

I'm back from the lovely city of Bologna. I had a wonderful time!!
I've met so many people and all of them nice :) If you were one of them - please make a comment or e-mail me, I sort of lost track of people after a while (sorry about that).

Collaboration in progress

These three photos are stolen from Ana's blog. They show our collaboration in process. See Ana's Serigrafia set on flickr for more photos. These are for our joint Exhibition in Bologna at Hamelin Associazione Culturale (Via Zamboni 15. Show opening is the 30th of march, and we will be there - so please pay us a visit if you are in the area). Topipittori is the reason we are there :)

paper something

Working on something for the exhibition with Ana in Bologna.

Paper artist, Sharon Aron

My first "Dispatches from -" guest post over at Poppytalk is up! It is about my trip to Östersund, read it here. Sorry for my really strange english, I can't log in and change it as I can here. It's funny how I can't "see" the mistakes before it is up on the web.
Elisabeth made a fantastic blog post about candy a week ago.

Distant friends

I've done some crooked embroidery

Ana sent me a package, we have started to work on our joint exhibition in Bologna with show opening the 30th of March, while the Children Book Fair is in town. It will take place at Hamelin.

Pikseli - almost Morran :)