I will be in “Market Collective” February 4th and 5th coming up SOOON. There will be plush robots and paintings for U2 SEA.

Come on down to Kensington Market Collective, across from Resolution Gallery on 10th 148 10th street NW, Calgary!

In the Old Ant Hill building…Just up from the Sunny side train station.

“Anthropomorphism”: Any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects, or abstracts concepts, such as spirits or deities.”

This show is a playful exploration of man-beast-plant-house.

Mucho Mas Thorvald Meyers gate 36  0555 Oslo, Norway

Come and see some art, drink some tea, and contemplate your own perceptions.

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New Works by Me@ “Weeds Café” from May 1st to ?

Come on out and see new weird things.

Creativity and Beauty
Friday 21 January 2011 4:54 p.m.
Art project with Carl Ahlstrom, Kelly Shpeley and Christine Frestad

Semi Finalist in the Miss Norway 2010, Christine Frestad, is one of many girls who have been in demand by photographers after last year’s beauty pageant. In December, she got the opportunity to be part of a collaboration between painter Kelly Shpeley from Canada and photographer Carl Ahlström from Sweden.

The idea was to present the model as a fabulous underwater creature, and Kelly wanted to experiment in the body art genre, as she had ever seen before. Kelly usually creates surrealistic paintings and works often with experimental materials.

Help from a hobby shop

From Panduro Hobby on Karl Johans in Oslo was the project bring out what they needed by the body paint, glitter, hudlim, veil fabric and artificial stones. Christine went from Sandnes, Carl from Gothenburg and Kelly had set up a makeshift studio in an apartment in Oslo. The project was started.

An extensive decorative work

It took about 8 hours to get Chris ready for the shoot. Arms, legs, torso and face were painted before the final touches were completed, namely the part Christine user to sit with. So it was clear to paste the “find” and the stones in the face. This meant that Christine had to stand for another couple of hours. Christine did not complain a single second. For now she knew that the fun could begin, namely, to pose for the photographer.

The result

The photographer had rigged lighting, background and worked with the concept. Shooter was informal and it was a good atmosphere. Christine took the Executive Board in a superb way, which was impressive considering that it was already late at night. There was a lot of playfulness and it was shot a large amount of images. What you see below is a taster from backstage when the artist fixes some of the facade.

What images are used to when they finish is still a well kept secret:)
Body paint

Photo: carlahlstrom.com
Body art: kellyshpeley.com
Model: christinefrestad.blogg.no
Materials: pandurohobby.no

Celile’s Mural

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This is a mural I did for a client in Oslo Norway, September 2010. The mural on the floor is heavily varnished and the mural on the wall is 3D with the right set of glasses. It was very fun! Oslo is amazing…as are the people. Generous, funny, clever humans!

The mural took a little planning due to the position of it (in a corridor),  but I love problem solving. And it took about a week to do. I then coated it heavily in a protective layer of varnish.

From December 1st 2010- to January 14th 2011.

Caffe Fantastico is located in the bright and lovely Canadian city of Victoria.