If you came for a Studio Visit this week, you would see…
A very tired me
So. Much. NOPE
In fact, you wouldn’t see me at all because I am not in the Studio I am in bed thank you and goodbye.
I had four Studio Visits this week, plus two podcast recordings, an IMMART dinner and a partridge in a fucking pear tree. I am very happy but very full.
I love you all so much but next week is an absolutely-no-fucking-people-cos-this-bitch-has-to-make-some-fucking-ART-and-also-rest week.
Being tired makes me very sweary.
Super cool pots
OBSESSED!
I have been working on these during the cracks in my week (there haven’t been many!) and I’m so impressed with how they’ve come out. I still need to do the papier mache part, but they’re already pretty robust.
I’m loving the amphora and I think it’s probably exactly the right size, but the shape of the other one (I think the pattern called it an urn) is wrong. And it’s too small. I’ll still finish it and paint it but it won’t be part of the Things… collection.
Wanna hang out in the Studio with me?
I’m fully booked until August, but you can still contact me for an IRL or virtual visit here and we can get you in sometime after that.
Just wanna voyeur from afar? That’s cool too:
"I'm not like you. I could never do that." Someone said this to me during a studio visit, and it broke my heart a little - because I don't think audacity is a type of person. I think it's the most important creative skill there is, and anyone can learn it.
Last month we went to the costume shop together for a top-secret project. This month, I can finally show you what it was for! Plus a trip to CPH Zine Fest, some very spooky shows, and getting ready for the UN.
When I was a kid, my mum turned me into an art collector before I was really old enough to know what that meant, and it’s the reason I made a calendar this year.
September was the month I went viral. Twice. One was a lot more fun than the other! Join me for a secret-project trip to the costume shop, celebratory cocktails, freshly printed zines, and an autumn equinox card pull that's full of good advice.
If you've ever felt like a fraud for not making constantly - for having fallow stretches, or working in sprints and bursts instead of a tidy daily grind - or resented the fact that the insatiable content beast of social media wants to consume every last scrap of your creativity, then this one's for you.
Every season, I make a little zine as a thank-you for the people who support my work. Join me in the studio with me as I put the autumn equinox zine together - the theme is harvest witch!
Pride month in Copenhagen, which brought up All The Feelings for me - the joyful, the complicated, and the ones I'm still untangling. Plus a queer art show, a gloriously boundary-fucking burlesque, some ridiculously exciting (and terrifying) news, and a return to painting after a break.
Is it worth deliberately overworking in order to buy an easier life later? A 30-day experiment in burning hot on purpose, and the real cost of pushing a creative practice and a chronically ill body to its limits.
The comedown after a social extravaganza, and the slow climb back up. A month of quiet studio days, my summer solstice ritual, Sankt Hans Fest, a drag show and the cats (as always). Essential elements in the gentle art of tending oneself back to life.
In this video I head to the beach to gather seaweed, shells, and inspiration for my latest Friends of the Haus zine - a love letter to summer memories by the water, made from old sketchbook pages, hand drawn lettering, and a lot of feelings (it's my Pisces moon!).
This is the story of how May brought new sparks of creativity into my life, through a fairly random series of incidents - also: thanks to the infamous Cat Distribution System WE UNEXPECTEDLY GOT CATS!
Inspiration is rarely a single lightbulb moment. It's more like a compost heap - a giant steaming pile of disparate things slowly breaking down until they become something new. This is a tour of my particular inspiration compost heap.