Nice Things: August Edition

A monthly dose of visual creative inspiration. This time: scenes and art from the North.

Hello friends,

I got back from Scandinavia last week and in a jet-lagged state, promptly jumped into packing up my entire house (and shop for that matter) so that I could move. It feels like a particularly strange in-between space to come back from a long trip and not have the grounding of home, to instead feel entirely in flux. Like some kind of permanent jet lag where you feel ever so slightly untethered from reality, and nothing seems quite as it should.

Which didn’t really make my feel like putting together an installment of Nice Things. For those of you who are new here, Nice Things is a monthly feature of visual creative inspiration that lands on the last Thursday of every month. Essentially, a collection of anything that has been capturing my attention.

Technically I’m still on summer newsletter time, because as we all know: people need breaks. But what better way to round off the summer than sharing some of my own snippets of inspiration from the last month?

So today I’m bringing you Nice Things: Nordic Edition, profiling several different women artists whose work I got to see this past month. This is a monthly feature for paid subscribers, so if that sounds of interest to you, maybe today is the day that you decide to join us.

Creative Fuel will return to its usual programming next week—or at least, I think it will—and starting on Tuesday we will be kicking off a special monthlong Create+Engage weekly series of posts and prompts centered around art and action.

With that, I’m back to packing my boxes and being in flux.

-Anna

Anna-Eva Bergman

Last summer when I was in Tromsø I learned about the artist Anna-Eva Bergman and immediately fell in love with her work. It was pure serendipity that this summer Nasjional Museet in Oslo featured an enormous exhibit, Becoming Anna-Eva Bergman.