Open Workshop ¤¤¤ Åbne Atelierdøre ¤¤¤ OFFENE ATELLIERTÜREN

pic above: Allan Axelsen

Tn the beginning of August 24 galleries and artist in our area had opened their doors to the public. This is a traditional thing and usually happens every year in August.

This was the first time we had joined the efforts - since only now the renovations had progressed to such a state that one could actually do such a thing.

Much to our surprise we've had a tremendous amount of people coming and showing interest in a number of different things.

However, at the end of the second day it had finally become time for me to drive around and check out some of the other places and meet other artist.

And you would't believe, how different they were!

Basically, as a rule of thumb, you can say if their art isn't lovely then their personality isn't either.

But luckily there were also many who were quite lovable people, with beautiful visions, and a couple of those I will feature here:

OFFENE ATELLIERTÜREN IN SÜD-DK, AUGUST 2010

Åbne atelierdøre 8/2010 er en tilbagevendende attaktion.

The first lady I visited was Dorte A. Hansen. I should have taken some pix there, but I didn't. Her art is simple, abstract, but very natural and Scandinavian and it has a lovely lighthearted, sweet spirit flowing through it. Perfect office-art and very affordable.

www.dortegrafiskdesign.dk

WIR BESUCHE VERSCHIEDENE KÜNSTLER, WIE DORTE A.HANSEN.

WWW.DORTEGRAFISKDESIGN.DK

Vi mødte forskellige kunstenere i deres atelier/gallerier.

den allerførste var Dorthe A. Hansen

www.dortegrafiskdesign.dk

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Now the ladies above are something entirely different.

They were out, in the middle of nowhere, on a converted farm - but everything had a little bit of a hobby-touch. Now don't get me wrong, I don't mean that in an invalidating way at all! On the contrary: both them, the place and their art are very charming and individual.

Nothing sterile about what they were doing! so if you want something very unique and handcrafted, which isn't too expensive, they'll be the ones to visit!

DIE DAMEN OBEN STELLEN BEI GITTE SUHR AUS, ADRESSE UNTEN:

Dorthe Sørensen, Anne Andersen and Gitte Suhr

www.poesiogmaleri.dk

Billederne ovn på er fra gitte Suhrs galeri.

Now, this jolly fellow I really love!

First of all the attitude which both his wife and him share: They're got a big heart, love everybody and everything and "...now let's have a great time together!" - no matter what!

It comes over as very genuine and contagious!

AXEL AXELSEN

De næste billeder er af Allan Axelsen og hans galleri:

I love what he's done to his dumpy farm! The part he has finished renovating really looks original and special - while both being elegant in a very rough way.

His art comes in neat frames, so it can also be accepted by stiff and snobby business/town people

and he seems to sell well, otherwise his prices wouldn't be this high!!!

So if you wanna show off with some Scandinavian art, which carries a beautiful and warm spirit while still being abstract neutral enough to match a minimalistic home or a prestigious office, he's the chap to contact, since he's also got all the right references, so your your snobby business-mates won't get a chance to fire off nasty comments...

Allan Axelsen

www.magepar.dk

www.palaur.dk/allan

Not far from there I met another charming artist: Laila Bennicke.

You can see, her art is as sweet and gentle as her first name!

DIE KUNST VON LAILA BENNICKE.

Den sidste kunstner er Laila Bennicke.

And again, her workshop was quite an experience - rebuild from scratch - from the ruins of an old outdoor-building. She also teaches courses there and her and her husband have a museum on the ground where you can both see lots of amazing fossils, a sand-sculpture and her art as well.

www.kunst-natur.dk

her kan man også besøge deres museum:

www.kunst-natur.dk

Now the last place I'm gonna show you is our own.

Since we hadn't been able to make the deadline and be finished with the renovations, we thought, we'd just go the opposite way and would make everything dark and light it up with candles.

Not sure how wonderful an idea it really was, but it definitely created some effect and spread an interesting atmosphere...

DIE FOLGENDEN BILDER SIND ALL VON DER GALLERIE GRANBORG GAARD.

WIR ÖFFNEN PÜNKTLICH ZU WINTERAUSSTELLUNG 2010 UND DANN KANN MAN NICHT NUR KUNST BESCHAUEN UND KAUFEN, ES WIRD EBENFALLS EINEN LADEN GEBEN, IN DEM MAN SOUVERIERS UND ANDRE SKANDINAVISCHE/ARKTISCHE ARTIFACTS ERSTEHEN KANN!

AUSSERDEM WERDEN VERSCHIEDENE KURSE (Z.B. MALERIE UND KERAMIK!) ANGEBOTEN, SAMT FERIENAUFENTHALTE.

Her er lidt om Galerie Granborg Gaard.

Juleudstillingen 2010 bliver den officielle åbning af galleriet og så kommer der også at være en lille gårdbutik med kunst, kunsthånsværk og både Skaninaviske/Arktiske artifacts.

Vi holder kurser (keramik, porcelænamaling, maleri m.f.) og der kommer sener hen også et café: Vildmarkscaféen - hvorman kan nyde specialiteter fra nord-Skaninavien/Lapland.

Vores ambition er at lave et kunstnerisk inspirerende sted, hvor folk kan komme og hygge sig - bare for sjovt og måske tage en ting eller to med hjem - som de endda kan få mulighed til at lave selv. Men det vigtiste er at de nyder nogle spændende og hyggelige sanseindtyrk!

This is by the way the art of an artist from L.A.: Pat Ross. She is a photographer and the pictures that were on display were mainly different breathtaking flower-shots.

HIER FINDET MAN DIE FOTOS VON DER CALIFORNISCHEN KÜNSTLERIN PAT ROSS UND VIELEN ANDEREN KÜNSTERN EBENFALLS!

Her ser man fotografier, lavet af den Californske fotograf Pat Ross.

Lige some på vores galeri på Fyn, kommer der altid at være forskellige kunstnere, både lokale og internationale, som kommer til at udstille i Galleri Granborg Gaard.

I had a lot of hand-painted china out and was rather surprised how popular that was.

So we've since made the decision that we will buy a large oven (kilt) in which we can burn as much pottery/china as possible. So starting this winter people will not only be able to buy my own pottery, but also come here to do their own!

There will be courses and all kinds of activities.

This is one of my older abstract pix: acryllic, "troubled waters"

Some more china, i had my "Indian flip" when I made these...

It does actually take a rather long time to paint something like that...

but luckily there are just so many different ways of creating patterns... so there are also methods which are a lot faster than that one with a million tiny dots...

this is yet another old painting, actually of the view from the motorways, when you drive east from Nice, but aren't yet quite in Monaco... I love the Côte d'Azur and we used to go there quite a lot until it just wasn't fun anymore. These days it has an ugly taste of dirty business and too much greed on one side and shocking poverty on the other... so instead we just head north all year round...

As for our gallery:

Both, gallery and the shop will open for the Christmas exhibition 2010 and then anyone can also come and do it's own pottery, paint china or do other courses. The objective is to get folks to "hygge" themselves sufficiently! In plain English: "hygge" is the most important word of the danish languish, meaning "having a good and "cozy" time". It can also be translated as "coziness".