Small House Big Ocean

Small House Big Ocean by Hedvig Wallin sets a little house on a rock in the middle of a sea of rolling waves, drawn entirely in black ink line. Every wave is built from patient parallel strokes, so a stormy subject ends up oddly calm, and the eye keeps returning to the one door and its handful of windows. It is a line drawing that suits a child’s room as well as a living room, and it hangs well beside anything with colour in it.

Hedvig Wallin

Gothenburg, Sweden

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.