Rose-painting - on sheepskin etc.

I've always had a special fascination for mediaeval manuscripts - and of course I'm not alone in that!

Later on I discovered Norwegian traditional rose-painting, and the Swedish equivalent, 'Kurbits': and then I saw the 15thC. wall-paintings in churches like Härkeberga in Uppland and Ytterlännäs in Ångermanland, and started to see links...

All it needed then was to find the North Bothnian tradition of colouring sheepskin bed-covers with natural tints, and somehow the whole thing fell into place.

With great help and encouragement from Karin - with whom I shared the delights and the exhaustion of farm, goats, sheep and all the rest of it - of potter friend Berit, and of handicrafts advisor Katarina Ågren, I started integrating the common threads of all these styles into a way of working which was completely new - and yet at the same time not new at all...

And from sheepskins it spread, of course, to walls, ceilings, computers...

more on this kind of painting

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