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Welcome to the Craft Festival

The Craft Festival is a sales exhibition bringing together a wide range of skilled exhibitors in Norwegian art and crafts. Here you will meet creators working with ceramics, textiles, jewelry, wood, glass, and other craft traditions, often combined with modern expressions and sustainable methods.

The exhibitors represent both experienced professionals and new voices, and common to all of them is a passion for craftsmanship, materials, and the unique quality of handmade products.

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Exhibitors

The Craft Festival is an inspiring exhibition featuring products made in small batches or as unique individual pieces. This is a rare opportunity to buy directly from the artisans, learn more about the processes behind their work, and experience true creative joy up close.

The sales exhibition runs from February 7th to April 6th, offering new details to discover throughout the period. Welcome to a festival celebrating craftsmanship, quality, and creativity.

Caroline Sagafos

Caroline Sagafos is a ceramicist working with thrown forms and distinctive surfaces at the intersection of function and artistic exploration. She runs Bekkelund Gård & Keramikk in Asker, where she explores the possibilities of clay through both utility and expression.

Goldsmith Silje

Silje is a trained goldsmith and works in the family business at Sandaker Centre. She breathes new life into old silver cutlery and creates unique jewelry and utility items with history and character.

The Porcelain Garage

In a garage in Askøy, she creates ceramics as part of her everyday life. The urge to create and creative expression are the driving forces behind her work. She mainly focuses on applied art, with a great fondness for colors and handmade expressions.

Håkon Busk

Håkon Busk is a sculptor with a BA in Artist Blacksmithing from Hereford College of Arts in England. Based on traditional craftsmanship, he creates minimalistic and modern expressions in wrought iron. In the series Folk, he explores how thoughts and emotions can be expressed through form and posture in the material.

Reshape Design

Kjerstin Granby is behind Omform Design and works with sewing and redesign based on recycled textiles. Inspired by old textiles and embroideries, she gives new life to materials that would otherwise not be used. She sews traditional costumes, mittens, blouses, and jackets, among other things.

Henning Flinta

Model railroading is a living diorama where one builds miniature landscapes and environments. The hobby combines woodworking, landscaping, color theory, and electronics. I have been actively involved in model railroading for the past 15 years and build in 1:220 scale, the smallest scale. New ideas emerge after each project, and one is constantly learning something new.

Live Madelén Smidsrød

Live Madelén Smidsrød is a ceramic artist and runs Brent Jord Keramikk. She creates colorful and decorative ceramics inspired by nature and childhood memories, with a focus on joy, details, and unique expressions.

Ms. Engsbråten

Miss Engsbråten Munngodt makes handmade sweets using new and traditional recipes. With a focus on quality ingredients and exciting flavours, her hobby has developed into a year-round open shop in Voss.

Weave Me Away

Anne Djupvik Andersen's "Weave Me Away" creates tapestries inspired by traditional åkler, where old techniques and materials meet a modern expression. The works are characterized by harmony, tranquility, and carefully composed colors and materials.

Planter på folk

Justyna Skowronek is an embroidery teacher and artisan behind Plants on People. With needle and thread, she explores how embroidery and flowers can provide calm and creative expression. At the festival, she will present her embroidery book, Blooming Embroidery, and a selection of simple patterns suitable for all skill levels.

Aage Bergedahl

Aage Bergedahl is a renowned knifemaker known for his precise craftsmanship and use of exclusive materials. His knives combine traditional techniques with modern expression and high functionality. In 2018, he won the "Knife of the Year" award and was awarded a gold medal for his work.

Three Nuts Botanical Dyeing Studio

Tre nøtter Plantefargeri is run by Karianne Lome Disen, who dyes wool yarn with plants from Norwegian nature. The result is unique, vibrant colors created through traditional plant dyeing craftsmanship and great patience.

Line Blom

Line Blom is a ceramist with a journeyman's certificate and a master's degree in industrial design. She creates durable utility items in porcelain and stoneware, with a strong emphasis on hand-throwing, material knowledge, and varied firing techniques.

Irene Myrbostad

Irene Myrbostad is a hat designer with a background in fine arts and extensive experience in exhibitions, workshop activities, and professional organizational work. She is known for her sculptural hats and her strong commitment to the art and craft community.

Tor Edvin Strøm

Through 8 monumental oil paintings, you follow the king from a feast, through the winter night across the ice on Randsfjorden, down to his death in the cold water, and further to his funeral, where his body was divided and buried in four different places

Studio Sigrid

Studio Sigrid is run by Sigrid Holter Mehli, an architect and woodturner. She creates unique pieces from recycled wood through an open design process with a focus on sustainability.

Stian Zimmerman

Stian Zimmermann is a visual artist based in Oslo who works with epoxy and paint using a self-developed technique inspired by stained glass. His works explore psychology and self-realization through a surreal and playful expression.

Amorea Makes

Mari Ann Flugheim, behind amorea_makes, creates crocheted products in a broad and varied style. She offers unique works ranging from teddy bears and baby clothes to bags, accessories, and home decor.

Marlene's Ceramics

Marlene Eilertsen is a ceramicist who runs Marlene's Ceramics from Nes in Romerike. She works with hand-thrown and hand-built ceramics, with a particular focus on glazes and surface exploration. Her works combine function, material understanding, and craftsmanship, and are characterized by thoughtful color palettes and unique expressions.

Moumounde

Karitas is the artist and designer behind Moumonde, creating ceramics, textile designs, and art prints inspired by childhood, fantasy, and playful forms.

Anne-Linn Nyfelt

Anne-Linn Nyfelt is an interior architect and artist who works with still life formed in clay. She creates small stories and moments, often featuring girls, rabbits, or birds, captured in mid-movement. Her works are characterized by the contrast between rough clay and smooth, satin glazes.

Marit Wollan

Marit explores human emotions and relationships through stylized and intuitive forms. Her works balance strength and vulnerability, inspired by body language and both personal and societal experiences. The sculptures are hand-built in stoneware clay and are characterized by tactility, tranquility, and unique expressions.

Anne Sofie Stumo

Anne Sofie Stumo creates functional pottery in stoneware and porcelain, inspired by pop art and music. Her series "I Idolize You" consists of hand-thrown and hand-painted, food-safe objects featuring musical artists from the 1950s to the present day. She has a particular fondness for strong female artists, and has recently also been working with K-pop-inspired motifs.

Bistel Distillery

Lisbeth Vågøy is a ceramic artist and the force behind Bistels Brenneri. She creates lively stoneware sculptures, known for their characteristic fish heads. Her works are characterized by strong expressions, experimental glazes, and distinct personality.

Rade Dzinkic

Rade Dzinkic makes handmade miniature wooden Norwegian houses, cars, and trucks. The works are made from recycled materials and combine playfulness with timeless Nordic charm. Each miniature is unique and created to be enjoyed for many years.

Selma Aldine Vågøy

Selma Adine Vågøy works with ceramics, focusing on materiality, form, and function. Each piece is unique and shaped through a close interaction between hand and material, with particular emphasis on touch and use. Her work is characterized by a direct and tactile approach to clay.

Marte Stordahl Berntsen

Marte runs a small pottery workshop in Ullerøy outside Sarpsborg. Here, she creates handmade sculptures with strong personality and a humorous twist, including rock priests and guardian angels. She is a trained decorator and now works full-time with clay.

Stina Solheim

Stina Solheim works with sheepskin sewing, a traditional Norwegian craft rooted in folk culture and home crafts. She makes hand-sewn sheepskin rugs and smaller products decorated with prints inspired by ancient symbols of protection, nature, and life. With a craft background spanning generations, she combines tradition with personal expression and passes on her knowledge as a course instructor.

A Soap Life

Et Såpeliv is a Norwegian brand that creates handmade, natural products for skin and hair. With a focus on safe ingredients and sustainability, mild soaps and skincare are developed in small batches, without unnecessary additives. Behind the brand is Kjersti Lindsjø, with a passion for honest and gentle care for both people and the environment.

Svea Ceramics

Nina M. Haraldsen works with stoneware clay, creating functional art and sculptural forms in the borderland between function and expression. Inspired by the nature surrounding her workshop by Randsfjorden, she explores shapes, colors, and details that give each object a calm and personal character.

Anne Schou

Anne works with sculpture and utility art in stoneware clay. Through an intuitive and meditative working process, she explores the properties of the clay and creates lively, playful, and humorous expressions. Inspiration is drawn from nature, people, animals, and her own fantasy universe, focusing on structure, surface, and character.

Guro Buttingsrud

Guro hand-weaves unique textiles for body and home. Shawls, scarves, and tops. Runners, cushions, and pictures.

Everything is designed and woven in her workshop in Ådal, Ringerike. Based on traditional techniques and materials, she seeks to find new expressions and create products with a clean, classic, and timeless aesthetic.

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