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Fourth Upon a Time...Eva, Harriët, Kitty, Nadja
Along with traditional and contemporary watercolour art, The Nordic Watercolour Museum has a special focus on picture storytelling for children and young people.
Fourth Upon a Time... Eva, Harriët, Kitty, Nadja is the fifth exhibition with this theme in focus.
Here, we encounter four artists and picture book creators from four European countries. They all have a deeply personal visual language and create narratives that challenge and cause one to marvel. In the exhibition, the artists will present their books as well as completely different sides of their artistry. They have chosen to work together and let their different worlds collide – resulting in new art, new pictures, and new stories.
During one week in December 2014, they all met in Skärhamn to create images together – this exhibition is the result.
Participating artists: Kitty Crowther, Eva Lindström, Nadja and Harriët van Reek
About
Kitty Crowther
Kitty Crowther (b. 1970, Belgium) is an author and illustrator, who lives and works in Belgium. Her main tools are pencils, coloured pencils and ink. Kitty Crowther’s loyalty to children is unconditional and her work often shows how the loneliness we all carry is a natural part of life and does not need to be daunting.
About
Eva Lindström
Eva Lindström (b. 1952, Sweden) studied at Västerås School of Art and at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.She is both an author and illustrator. Lindström began working as a cartoonist but gradually transitioned to illustrating books. Lindström’s visual language moves directly without circumlocution to charged states and strong emotions. Thematically, she moves effortlessly between the most everyday and the deeply existential.
About
Nadja
Nadja is an artist, illustrator and author who lives and works in Paris. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Nadja grew up in the Paris region after some time in Lebanon and had an unconventional childhood. Up to the age of 13, she was educated through correspondence courses and by her mother, Olga Lecaye, who was an artist of Russian descent. She made her debut as a children’s author in 1988. Her pictures, in expressionistic style, usually cover the whole page. Nadja is drawn to the dark forces in fairytale worlds. This is balanced, however, by touches of humour and happiness in her picture tales.
About
Harriët van Reek
Harriët van Reek (b. 1957, the Netherlands) is a children’s book author and illustrator. She trained as a drawing and crafts teacher. After a few years of travel through Africa, Japan, and Ireland, she returned to her homeland and eventually established herself as an artist. Harriët van Reek’s books are distinguished by a special balance between image and text. The artist often omits details and consciously creates a deceptively simplistic design reminiscent of children’s drawings. The humorous stories often tend towards the absurd and are driven by unexpected twists. The child’s perspective is an obvious starting point.
Pictures from the exhibition
