THE GALLERY PAGE
Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person…”
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space – space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of illustration can live.
Recycling is a concept that is important to me personally, and making something new that will last many years to come out of something with personal history feels lovely.
The Swedes have a word to describe this kind of craft: ‘Brukskonst’, which means ‘practical art’ and that is how I like my work to be: beautiful, and useful.
In any art, you don’t know in advance what you want to say – it’s revealed to you as you say it. That’s the difference between art and illustration.
