Tiny packages to give (and to keep!) for the holiday season at poast.no
LAURIE POAST IS A SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN ARTIST AND DESIGNER IN NORWAY
29 October 2014
28 October 2014
SWEET SCANDINAVIAN GIFTS BY POAST
17 October 2014
CHRISTMAS IN SCANDINAVIA
Luxurious white porcelain in tiny architectural forms, hung on sterling silver pins and tied with loops and bows of crisp white paper twine. Find them at poast.no.
O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!
How lovely are your branches?
In beauty green will always grow
Through summer sun and winter snow
O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!
How lovely are your branches!
O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!
You are the tree most loved!
How often you give us delight
In brightly shining Christmas light!
O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!
You are the tree most loved!
O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!
Your beauty green will teach me
That hope and love will ever be
The way to joy and peace for me.
O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!
Your beauty green will teach me.
(An English version of the old German Christmas carol, "O Tannenbaum!")
(An English version of the old German Christmas carol, "O Tannenbaum!")
12 October 2014
AMERICA TO HOLLAND TO NORWAY: MY CHANGING AESTHETIC
From one land to another
to another
Farewell to family
over the clouds
ancient cobblestones
vast flatlands
water and wind harnessed
then to the North
seasick along the Nordic coast
water and wind wild
upon another shoreline
safe on my ancestors' mountains
From America to Holland to Norway, 2009 to 2014. Today Norway is my home, and Yves' home, and Leikny's home. Today I work as an artist, breathing in all that surrounds me here, and from it, creating. My aesthetic has changed with as much hardship, pain of loss, curiosity, and remarkable joy as has my life in these years. This blog discusses my journey.
21 March 2011
ART-INSPIRED FASHION PUT TOGETHER ON POLYVORE
I absolutely adore many of these pieces, nearly as much as I love their inspirations...
26 January 2011
CLAY IN THE TRADITION OF THE DUTCH MASTERS
My new shipment of clay came in, and I was soon quite busy with all sorts of new creations. I'm working with a natural air-hardening clay that contains minerals and natural cellulose fibers that harden my pieces strongly and naturally without kiln firing. It's a beautiful non-toxic clay that comes from the coast of Spain. Into the wet clay body, I'm mixing Dutch artist pigments ground by a windmill here in Holland, the Verfmolen de Kat. I've put the pigments into old medicine bottles, and their colors bring a sort of rich, earthy vibrance to my atelier. I adore the work of mixing them by hand, in the tradition of the Dutch Masters like Vermeer and Rembrandt. Young Rembrandt lived just a few steps from my door.
I've created several groupings now of clay art objects, all representations of European residential architecture. The forms are extremely simple, yet recall enough character of their inspirations to be quite recognizable.
The repetition of vertical Dutch canal houses in a row of earthy ochres and terra cottas, the stoney textures of white farmhouses on the French countryside, The shiny green enamel on the charming cottages of Zaanse Schans, Holland, and the beautifully raw but vibrant pastel surfaces of the houses built on the jutting cliffs of Italy's Cinque Terre all call to mind the familiar scenes of home in Europe.
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