18 – 23 September: Odawara Castel Hall, Odawara
5 – 8 November: Affordable Art Fair in Hamburg with Art Gallery Juca Claret
Every year I think “This is the hottest summer I’v ever experienced…” I don’t know if that’s true, if I have a hard time remembering or if – as I get older – I just can’t handle the heat the same way anymore… but this is the hottest summer I’ve ever experienced!
In any case, this summer has also been the most productive I’ve had in a long time – several new proects have come up, including one more exhibition in Tokyo in September and I’ve also been invited to exhibit at the worlds largest miniature exhibition, hossted by the Miniature Art Society of Florida. It feels so exciting!
It feels so incredibly wonderful to have been invited by the Miniature Art Society of Florida to join them as a member and participant in their annual exhibition
– the Largest Miniature Exhibition in the World!
I’m proud to be one of the World’s Miniature Painters – to highlight the importance of small details.
My “FEEL-GOOD POESTRY BOOK” is now available. It contains breaf thoughts and reflections on life in general and miniature painting in particular.
It’s a book meant for slow reading—the perfect book for unwinding in a stressful time.
Thousand and One Cranes – now this year’s “Crane of Cranes” is finished and there are really 1.000 small cranes making 1 big.
The story behind this artwork is as follows:
So many people, young and old, feel a hopelessness about the future and they say “It doesn’t matter what I do… a drop in the ocean…”
…but without drops there will be no ocean!
Every little act matters, every little grain of sand, every little smile,…
…and every crane matters. Together.
“Every Tiny I paint is a love letter to Nature. A way to hold on to something that is in constant change, so perfect and magical, vital but also so fragile that it needs each of us to care. I create a small peephole to the beauty that surrounds us with the hope of drawing attention to the small details that make Life so big.”
All watercolor paintings are painted loyal to the traditional technique with the paper as the only white and the water as the only light – all with brush.
ANNA ÅSTRÖM 