Painting by Edvard Friström

Some years ago I bought this painting in a shop, without knowing anything about the artist. Now I know he is known as Clas Edvard Friström, or Edward Fristrom, born in Sweden 1864, but he moved abroad and became a famous painter in New Zealand.

He then moved again with his family, wife and their children, to the USA, where he died 1950, in California. My painting in watercolor is probably made in Sweden, it is a view of Kalmar Castle.

A Close up on the signature, Edward Fristrom.

Read more about him here››

A scene from my wall

Just another painting from my late mother Gunvor that is hanging on my wall, love it.

It is a scene from the landscapte just outside her house, just like it is just now, with a little snow here and there.

New Year 2013 - new things and old

Today is the first day of 2013 - and I look back at yesterday, a nice evening with family and friends.

A  candle lit dinner, new exiting food and eating it close to old family portraits. Thats really nice.

An old relative is looking at me from this painting, isn't he? Hope he likes what he saw?

Just an old painting

And here is one old painting I have on my wall, not shure who did it, just that it's not that valuable. But I really like it.

The painting reminds me about the old murals in some of the houses in the ancient city Pompeii, in Italy, just outside Naples. A roman city that was totally destroyed by an vulcano eruption - Vesuvio.

My own work in oil

Strange it is, but it iI have painted this face. Not my mother, but probably can see that. It is nowhere close to my mothers art. She was the talanted one with the oils and watercolors.

The reason I difd this was a competition at my workplace, Svensk Damtidning, some years ago. All of us had to do a portrait of a famous Swedish artist Barbro Lill Babs Svensson. This was my entry.
Here is a photo of her, if you are interested from site I work at:
http://svenskdam.se/2010/07/bildspel-diggiloogolf-pa-hooks-herrgard/

Heaven made of fabric

This is another of my favorites by my mother Gunvor, a "painting" in fabric. It's a art piece of heaven and earth. Heaven made of cloth.

You could see a lot in it, depending of your faith. I love it, what do you think?

A peace dove

This is my mother´s stuff again, love her watercolor paintings, and this one is from her religious collection.

Maybe it is peace dove, on the way with some good news. Or... It is whatever you want it to be.
The painting is somewhat cropped.

House on fire

Maybe you have seen this art piece before her on my blog, but I really love this "painting" made of fabric, by my late mother Gunvor.

She made it after my house burned down - now almost 10 years ago. I lost almost everything in this summerhouse, but my mom found a poster on the ground, it was winter and very cold, so she took it, and some other stuff, like burned clothes and used these things to make this "painting".
Love it!!

Seeking the sun

This painting, in watercolours by my mother Gunvor, it is so much me and my life, always seeking the sun...the light.

You can see how much these persons want to go into the sun itself, to the light there in the background.
I have the painting on a wall here at my home, so I can watch it all the time.

A forest

Welcome to this forest painted in wild colors, some of them made in the photo by me - thou...
As usual it is painted by my mother. I my taste it is not one of her best works, but it's fun to see anyhow.

Love to take a walk here...

A painting I love

This is a painting I really love, it is an old copy of a painting that you can find in a museum in Napoli, Naples, in Italy: Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte.

The painting is orginally a Parmigianino, an Italian painter born 1503. The painting is called, Ritratto di
Gian Galeazzo Sanvitale.
You can see the original painting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parmigianino_024.jpg

And then some memories of summer

Don't know if you seen it before, but I can't stop myself from showing you this painting of summer here in Sweden.

Med by my mother Gunvor as usual, it was painted outside her home, on the north east side of the house a sunny summer day.

Me and myself

Some years ago, at a birthday I got a really lovely present, a painting - of myself, made by the Italian artist Marco Cecioni that lives in Sweden. He is a fantastic person, and a dear friend. But most important - a really good artist.

You can se me here, holding my lovely gift, the portrait. It is an oil painting, and it has my astrological sign on one shoulder, I am born in may... and is as you maybe can see - a Taurus.

And here he is, the artist Marco Cecioni himself. He is born in Napoli, Naples, and he lives in Stockholm Sweden and in Vietri Sul Mare in the Amalfi Coast, Italy.
You can look at his work here at his own website:
http://cecioni.com/

More of my mothers art

As you could se before I did put up some of my mother Gunvor's art work here on my blog. As I also promisied, here is some more of her stuff.

This "Aquarium" above is made of wool - yarn - and home made ceramic details.

I am sorry for the flash light in the middle, but it is a watercolour of a landscape here in the country.

This is a typical piece of art from my mother, she loved to do things in ceramics that looked like they where from things in the nature around us. Like this huge seed pod.
Love you mum!

Here the earlier photos of some other work my mum did:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-mother-gunvors-art-work.html