Join us for an artist talk with Skaftfell’s current residency artists on Wednesday, September 28, 17:30-18:30 in the Skaftfell apartment (top floor). Coffee and biscuits will be served. Brooke Holve lives and works in the small town of Sebastopol, CA, about an hour north of San Francisco. Inspired by the natural processes of landscapes, her work investigates the nature of shaping, in particular the interactions of internal/exterior processes with materials and language. She is artist-in-residence at Skaftfell for the month of September 2022. Catherine Richardson lives and works in-between London, UK, and Healdsburg, Northern California. Her work, mostly drawing and […]
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Bernd Koberling, Autumn – Loðmundarfjörður
September 23 – December 31, 2022, Skaftfell Bistro BERND KOBERLING Haust | Autumn – Loðmundarfjördur The Painterly Self Now on view in the bistro is an installation of watercolors by the renowned German artist Bernd Koberling (Berlin, 1930), who has summered in neighboring Loðmundarfjörður since 1977, when he was first introduced to the East Fjords by Dieter Roth. The ten watercolors were all executed in the autumn of 1998, the year of Skaftfell’s founding nearly 25 years ago. In them, one can find reference to the topography and vegetation of Loðmundarfjörður in the colors that expressively evoke the autumn season. […]