The Art and Sea expedition

Finland, April 2008

Twenty artists from Finland, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Sweden, plus a crew of four, sailed with the schooner Helena from Oslo, Norway, to the harbor town Uusikaupunki in Finland, during April 2008.

See a selection of images
See more images and read blog 'Artsailing 2008'
Read another blog (at Sail Training Association Finland website)
Article in Gotland's news portal (in Swedish)

One of the participants of Art and Sea, Pive Toivonen, made this art piece ('Desert')  on basis of a black-and-white photograph she took during the heavy storm that the expedition experienced.
The bottom seabed of Baltic sea is said to be the largest desert in the world. The lack of oxygen has made it unsuitable for living organisms. 'Desert' combines the sea bottom as clay with the form of waves. 

Website of exposition Waterways
(in Salo, Finland, September-October 2008)

 

And here are two graphic prints Pia Jacobsson made, inspired by the trips on the Helena. She printed them on old sea charts, with stripes of tape, coffee spots and remarks on them!

 

Rebekka Harju made the drawings/paintings on the right and below during the expedition. She used mixed media when making them.

Wolves
 

Helena Andreeff, a participant of the expedition who lives on Gotland and works at Gotlands konstskola (The Art school of Gotland), made these drawings using oil crayons and charcoal.

Art work by Jan van Boeckel
of TaiK, Helsinki

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