Since a few months back I make digital art. Here are some recent works.

If you like to see more you are welcome to visit my Instagram account at @artbylottebom 

Groupexhibition "Translations" - Lalit Kala Gallery, Odisha, India nov 2015

"Recreation of the path to an old abandoned cottage in India." Oil on canvas

Puris (indian bread), refugee lifeboats, coins

My art has become archeology!
 This is "Homeland" - the broken floor of the studio Anandapur, put together and painted in gold.  

"The ones I left behind" - stonecarving

Comming up next...

D.I.S.C the art, Odisha, India
Sep - Nov 2015

During my upcoming residency I will discover arts and crafts of indigenous people of Odisha, ancient techniques and contemporary craft together with some other artists. We will live close to nature and collaborate with local artists in workshops such as soft stone carving, terracotta and basketry. The basic path of the residency is to share ideas of humanism by travel, live, create and communicate together. We also get the opportunity to discover new-old form of life – primitive, vegetarian and ecological and to discover our inner selves. The period will end up with an exhibition at Lalit Kala Gallery, Bhubaneshwar, the capital of state Odisha.

Cottage Studio Infusion

Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad 
 Apr-May 2014

The exhibition was about turning away from everyday life, leaving all obligations; parenthood, partnership, job and other duties to reflect and experience solitude, less impressions, less consumption and reestablish quality of life. It was an anti stress action where I infused myself with the emptiness and simplicity of an old abandoned cottage. It is a reflection on time, stress and possessing - how does it affect us on an individual and general level with an increasing number of stress related health conditions in our society? Is less sometimes more and can we still become satisfied? If you ask me I´d be positive therefore I like to highlight a slower pace to begin with to promote division and regain meaning and depth.

House warming party in Cottage Studio

Invitations for a house warming party at the Cottage Studio were spread in Palomettäntie, Ojakylä in Ii. Locals, artists from cultural centre KultuuriKauppila and a school class came by to see us. Stories were told and the children brought drawings of Liisu and Yrjö who were siblings and the last who lived there.

Cottage Studio in Ii

Helsingin Sanomat 2013

Helsingin Sanomat 2013

My project in Ii, Finland summer 2013 was to withdraw from everyday life and find an abandoned house to make into an art studio and infuse myself with its solitude and emptiness to reclaim an alternative lifestyle. Together with my colleague Helena Kaikkonen I found this gorgeous cottage and was able to use it for nearly three weeks.

Resumé of pieces left inside the cottage

• Liisu wardrobe – 38 wooden mini clothes sculptures in the attic
• Rehabilitation of a table – rags wrapped around the kitchen table
• Nourishing of the walls – paper and wallpaper on a wall inside the cottage behind the red sofa, white bureau and sewing machine
• Restoration of roses – roses from an old table cloth patched onto the exterior of the house.
• Two Baby Liisu dolls - photos of a Liisu child mounted on wood
• Liisu with secret man – photo of bookmark from another abandoned cottage mounted on wood inside the cottage
• Portrait of a man – an enlargement of a photo of a man found in another abandoned cottage mounted on fabrics. On the bureau you can also find the original photo of the man.
• Spread photos inside the cottage – the photos on the windows are photos from another abandoned house, a curtain and two moths. The photos in the bureau in the box with postcards are photos of postcards from another additional abandoned cottage and photos of photos of postcards are also from additional abandoned cottages.
• Child´s shoe – an old shoe from an abandoned house.

Hovåsmotet winter 2013

Today I went for a visit to a demolished house. Upon arrival I could see a digging machine, trash and lots of waste. Between piles of sorted junk and clutter frozen leaves and plants were sticking up a little here and there. It took me quite some time to explore the place and I found nice details inside the house. I love this excursions.