Artists

Markus Naarttijärvi

Markus Naarttijärvi is a documentary photographer based in Umeå, Sweden. His long-term projects follow industry, nature and culture in northern Sweden, exploring solitude, perseverance and the passage of time.

Umeå10 prints

Umeå10 prints

Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil

Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil is a Swedish illustrator and visual artist with an MFA in Visual Communication from Konstfack. Her picture books have been published by Natur och Kultur and Seven Stories Press, and have received a BolognaRagazzi Award and a New York Public Library Best Book designation. She leads workshops around the world where personal stories are expressed through visual and narrative storytelling and grow into collectively made artworks. Her originals are hand painted in watercolour, natural pigments and mixed media.

Stockholm7 prints

Stockholm7 prints

Patrik Wennerlund

Patrik Wennerlund is an art director and photographer, and the owner of PWM AB / PWMFoto. He has worked in advertising and marketing for most of his life, and photography has always played a central role in his work, both as a client and as an image maker across advertising, editorial and other communication. In 2011 he bought his first real system camera to try something new, and travel and photography proved an unbeatable combination. On his many journeys he captures objects, nature, buildings and beings, and transforms them into alluring artworks. His aim is to create images he would like to hang on his own wall. His work has been exhibited several times.

Borås5 prints

Borås5 prints

Simen Wahlqvist

Simen Wahlqvist is a Norwegian graphic designer and illustrator based in Oslo. In his work he aims to capture moments, often before they happen, with as few lines as possible. If an illustration makes him laugh, it’s done.

Oslo5 prints

Oslo5 prints

Christina Hägerfors

Christina Hägerfors is an illustrator originally from Sweden and now based in France, who has worked in illustration since her BA (Hons) at London College of Communication. She is inspired by colour, old prints and book covers, and hopes her pictures carry a kind of nostalgia. Her clients include The Guardian, The New York Times, The Observer and Time Out.

Karlstad4 prints

Karlstad4 prints

Emma Iben

Emma Iben is an illustrator, graphic designer and motion designer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She creates visual material for album covers, posters, tattoos, educational resources, fictional short films and public service TV, professionally as well as for fun. Her drawings are melodramatic and humorous, and convey emotional experiences through recurring motifs of tricky bodies, abnormal sizes and tangles.

Copenhagen4 prints

Copenhagen4 prints

Hedvig Wallin

Hedvig Wallin is an illustrator and graphic designer from Gothenburg, Sweden, who began illustrating children’s books at eighteen and still does, alongside editorial work, murals, logos, labels and posters. She draws on naive art for its childlike simplicity, mixing ink, pencil, soft pastel, watercolour and digital media into playful, detail-rich images with a wonky perspective, where something new turns up each time you look.

Gothenburg4 prints

Gothenburg4 prints

Mikko Saarainen

Mikko Saarainen is an award-winning illustrator, children's author and comic artist from Lahti, Finland. His pictures are funny, expressive and packed with detail: a cruise ship where every passenger has spotted something different, a family car loaded past the roofline, a knight losing an argument with a dragon. He works in a bold line and flat, faintly grainy colour, and keeps the detail going right out to the edges, so the drawings get read as much as looked at.

Lahti4 prints

Lahti4 prints

Sia Siamos

Sia Siamos is a half Greek, half Norwegian illustrator living in Bergen, with a soft spot for still life, food and everyday moments. She came to illustration from graphic design, drawn to the quiet details that say the most, and works digital or analogue as the subject asks.

Bergen4 prints

Bergen4 prints

Oslo2 prints