Located in the midst of Grimstad, a small city down south in Norway, you find this charming and nostalgic, American café called Platebaren. Originally it opened as a record store in 1979, but was transformed into a Diner in 2012 when Internet more or less took over the music business. The café has elements from […]
Photo: Jann Bernhard Nilsen It all began this summer. My husband and I were hiking in the Norwegian mountains Rondane and I decided that mountain flowers should be my holiday project. I wanted to learn all the names of the tiny, beautiful flowers that surrounded our feet. I made this little bouquet and back at the […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen Salvador Dalí’s famous picture “The Persistence of Memory” is a favorite of mine. It has many interpretations, but for me it simply says something about the small importance of time and age. And of course I love the great colors. The Spanish surrealist Dalí was once asked if Albert Einstein’s theory of special […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I love reading because good books tend to give me inspiration, a change of direction, new opinions and more creativity. The painter Randi Kvilaas made this beautiful picture of a moonshell after reading the book above “Gift from the sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. And the best part is, she gave it to me.
Guernica is a city situated in northern Spain. The painting Guernica was created by Pablo Picasso in response to German and Italian bombing of the city in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The picture measures almost 8 x 4 meters and although I have seen it before, standing here in Madrid with my students […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen Watching how these people are waking up with the sun in the picture “A new day”, reminds me of being more present in my own day. The picture is made by the Norwegian painter Else Hagen and is hanging in my livingroom. More about her in an article I have written […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen My husband and I got these mugs as a present from our daughter when she returned from New York. They were bought in Starbucks and came with a black and white pen for decoration. My artistic friend decorated them for us before they were put in the oven for baking. […]
I love to live in Scandinavia where we have the variation of seasons. However this winter we have had mainly rain, so the other day I was comforting myself by making this collage that I named “Four seasons”. These pictures are made by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch and they are all hanging in The […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I am quite happy to have purchased this colorful iPhone cover with “High Summer II” painting by Edvard Munch. More
