Louise Bourgois
“I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.” Louise Bourgeois
Fairy Tale /Sagolikt
Next year, in mars, there vill be an exhibition, theme fairy tales. It’s my friend ceramic artist Gunilla Fridholm, her daughter Sara Aurora Waters and I who will join together. First stop will be at Dergårdsgalleriet in Lerum just outside of Gothenburg. Nu är det spikat: i mars nästa år blir det utställning kring temat sagor. Tillsammans…
filmfestival
Not much time to attend the magnificent film festival in Gothenburg right now. But one film I got to see, thanks to my dear friend Ulla: Yarn https://festival.giff.se/events/yarn Inte mycket tid att se alla dessa spännande filmer på filmfestivalen,men en hann jag med, tack vara vännen Ulla.
Gubben Noak
Nice embroidery, found in flea market store. Gubben Noak. Ett fint broderi som jag hittade på loppis.
Snow-time!
Woke up to Winter Wonderland this morning. All this whiteness is inspiring. So I played around with a little sketching. Vaknar till en vit värld idag. Det inspirerar till lite skissarbete.
Street Threads / Gatutrådar
Time for some embroidery in the street! Nice happy colours and heavy threads! Dags för lite gatu-broderi! Snygga, glada färger och tjocka trådar!
Time for sketching! / Skissdax!
At last! After all these Christmas celebrations it’s time again to get some work done. Today I started doing some small sketches for work soon in progress. I also finished a new bowl. This one is called After eight. Because the black dots are made out of the wrapping paper of After Eight chocklade. Äntligen! Efter…
Trip to Stockholm – again / Ännu en tur till Stockholm
A very quick trip by train to Stockholm to see my friend Inger Carlssons exhibition. (Inger the one I did the workshops in Crete together with). She shows her work until the 23 rd December at Gallery Yamanashi. I just did a pot about it on my other blog, Fibertiger: http://www.henrietteousback.blogspot.se Jag har just varit…
Done some dyeing / färgat lite
Last week I finally did some dyeing of embroidery floss. Together with my friend, who’s done thread dyeing quite a lot, mostly woollen yarn for knitting, we took a day in her laundry room. This time we would tray dye cotton floss. In plastic trays we did som intricate arranging. Then we did everything according…
Workshop in beautiful Stockholm /Workshop i höstvackra Stockholm
Just back from Stockholm where I had a two day workshop, a workshop without a name. It was a continuation of the workshop mossa-mylla I had a year ago. It was a nice group of nine dedicated embroiderers, all of them i met last year, all of them with their own textile expression. Outside it…
Henriette Ousbäck 