Blue – Woad – Color from plants as Intelligence in Art and Science collaboration

WOAD Art and Science

💙 Blue – Color from plants as Intelligence in Art and Science collaboration Woad, Vejde (Isatis tinctoria) is not just a pigment—it reveals, transforms, remembers—an ancient medicinal plant, once sacred, giving blue and carrying a long history. In an art and science collaboration with Professor Jonas Bergquist at Uppsala University, I explored the plant Woad […]

Taking a Cold bath in the Winter

After a cold bath watching the sunrise, outside Kungälv in the Northern hemisphere

I thought was time to start to sharing my passionate as a women explorer. I don’t separate my artwork from myself, my health and body. I am a health coach artist!I t’s all about our sensitiveness and sensitive ecosystem and ecology. Its magical to do a cold bath in the ocean in sunrise on a cold […]

My breath, Colour and the mind of the Ocean

Photo: In the ocean

I love the ocean, and I have started to research the underworld of the West Coast – Ocean, seaweed, macro algae and colour and my own breath, mind and body. My artistic research work, the oceans health and ecosystem and my own health and well being is not separated, they coexist in all my work. […]

Other publications

Here is some other older Publications to downlaod   Articles written by me The Weaving Magasin Sweden 2014 Download English Vävmagasinet Sverige 2014 Download Svenska Woad in Sweden presented by Jeanette Schäring and Margareta Bergstrand 2014 Taiwan Downlaod English  Woad and Indigo fermentations processes tested Download English    Other Articles about my work The Weaving […]

The languages of parasite communication

Some older work and research, photography and moving images I am interested in human perception and the interconnectedness of things in nature and life in which various elements and matters exist in more than one form. Working with the craft of slow dynamical processes, the transformation of colour and the artistic process using life circles, inter-species communication, microorganisms, […]

The Sky is not Blue

Installation. Swedish raw linnen dyed in organic woad and Indigo. On the floor wool dip-dyed in organic slow indigo and woad vat.

I am intrigued by fibres and their properties and how they absorb Colour and Light For this work, I have used Swedish raw linen and dyed it with an organic fermentation process to dye blue.  The work has expanded and in the installation in Ronneby Kulturcentrum, I had over 200 of these blue spinning works. […]

HOST (biology)

Artist MRA Scan, digital printing on Silk. Intruder

Host (biology) It’s a work where I have used my own MRA scan for digital printing on silk. This work has taken many forms! Still in work and progress Sometimes there is a relationship between two organisms of different species in which one is a parasite and the other is a host.  ‘I am intrigued by […]

“The Sacred Room of Blue and Unknown Water” Sollentuna

Welcome to the exhibition “The Sacred Room of Blue and Unknown Water” Edsvik, Stallbacken, Sollentuna Opening Saturday 9 mars klockan 13.00 Edsvik, Stallbacken Kultur  Plants have the ability to enhance our sensory perception and deepen our understanding of complexity, substance, beauty and fragility through its colour and fibers. This is an Eco-Poetic exhibition around PLANTS […]

Sensual meeting with the plant Woad – Isatis tinctoria

Performance researching the plant Woad

Woad, or Glastum – Isatis tinctora – this powerful plant, its colour and fragrance in transformation with me   “I see plants and their colour and fragrancy surrounded by an emotional atmosphere that I try in different ways to visualize and define. The colours and fragrances from plants are for me dualities of our coexistence in […]