In 2015 I spent one month as an artist in residence at Zea May printmaking studio, Massachusetts. Here is a fresh intervju with me. You will find blogposts about the stay here: https://ellyp.com/wp/why-zea-may/ and here https://ellyp.com/wp/artist-in-residency/
RESIDENCIES and workshops 2013-2020
Making art is the process of leaving something behind, to search for new knowledge, other ways of seeing, and challenges offering insecurity. Or frustration. Patterns of behavior are broken, and you find yourself in a limbo. Or at least that is how it works for me. And it works. One week at Awagami is worth a month at home, if …
BREATHING IN AND OUT
It has been a while…and a lot of good things have happened. Like March 2018, I spent March 2019 at Awagami Factory, Japan, exploring the world of pulp painting. I will have to come back to that. Too much to include in one post. Back in my studio in Bergen, I picked up the printmaking tread. Full workout with pulp …
ART CONNECTS
When an idea occurs, or may be I should rather call it a feeling of progress, I grab my pencil and very quickly make the notes needed for remembering. Weeks later I find my notes, wondering what this is about. The intentions are forgotten, and I am left with some scribble I cannot interpret any longer. Till I find another …