Flying back to Reykjavik in Iceland for a 6 week exchange to study and work on ceramics at the Myndlistaskolinn in Reykjavik felt so wonderful! Seeing the amazing snowy Iceland after grey and rainy Helsinki in Finland was a lovely sight indeed. I cannot but wonder how shades of grey can be so beautiful. The […]
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My stay in Reykjavik coming to the end. This time.
Oh well, time has flown but still I feel that these weeks have also passed in a way slowly, because I have done so much in addition to the schoolwork also. I have tried to use time to the maximum and also see quite a bit of this fabulously beautiful country. People here have been […]
Learning to print on textile.
All about this course is new to me and therefore interesting, exciting but also a bit stressful at moments wondering what will come out of it all… A lot to learn and not that much time. Fun and speeding through new stuff. One has to be precise about measures. searching, searching, searching……. Before the schoolwork […]
Reykjavik is great.
the pink moment instead of the blue. Time is really just flying still here in Reykjavik and not so many weeks left any more. At school we have been working very intensively with a designer working on pattern ideas and designs that we will continue with another teacher the two forthcoming weeks in the textile […]
Time flies.
Fourth week has almost passed and it seems as I just arrived here in Reykjavik a little while ago… So much to do at school and everywhere and so much to see. Evening light at the seashore in Reykjavik. The week was busy at school finishing our projects of these past two weeks on the […]
Continuing to the third week
New week, new course. This week we started a two-week-long recycling course with two new teachers and went through some recycing material from the school and brought all kinds of “garbage” from each others homes. Us students went also to collect throw- away materials from different companies and started creating new things out of it […]
Second week.
This week started with photographing some of our works from the previous week with a great teacher, the photographer Karl Petersson. Students were working on their portfolios and the first two days was photography and the rest of the week Photoshop and InDesign working with another teacher. A very good and efficient week. Trying to […]
First week at school
First week started very intensely with a very interesting course of meditative embroidery; a course held by an icelandic textile artist and also a yoga teacher whose teaching included meditation, embroidery in silence, chanting, discussing our work and ideas, tasks and a lot of working by ourselves, too. Absolutely a great way of starting in […]
Arriving in Iceland.
My plane landed in Reykjavik in the late afternoon of the 19.9.2019 and the weather was kind of as expected: foggy and rainy. In the bus to the Reykjavik city. On Friday I visited the Myndlistaskolinn Reykjavik to see the school and the classroom so the start on Monday would be easier. Everyone seemed very […]