Departures lounge...

S'no that cold!...

When in Lapland..Finns just do! So even when it reaches -31oC!! It's on with the work! :D

Myself and my beautiful assistant (or maybe it was the other way around..:P! Team work either way)!

We worked from 9 in the morning til around 5.30 (with the essential coffee breaks of course).

With a team made up of several groups we worked on four bedroom suites of a snow hotel and its bar and restaurant!

The back wall, heavy lifting required :! We decided on our own themes and ours was "birds..the sky"..yeah they are not arrows..:P

The idea would be that the clients would be sleeping on cloud 9! (or cloud 7 in Germany :S!!)!

The team :)!

I absolutley loved my time at the snow hotel and getting a chance to carve into some "snow" and ice was definetly worth braving the cold! Although my face suffered slightly with what I was told was "frost nip" I would go back in a heart beat :D! Who knows what the future holds..!

Pastures gone..

"What would life be if we we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh

(Two quick paintings from my first few days in Lapland.)

Just drawing..

"Salmiakki is a salty treat (like candy but salty) that many people in Finland love. Many agree that it is an aquired taste"

..some quick sketches for the course "Finnish Design".

Inspired..

I'm in Finnish Lapland and its only -10oC outisde...lets freeze us some sculptures..

~Mr. Hare~


Our tracks tell us where we have been, it's up to us to decide where we will go.

Lapland

"Nothing begins here. Nothing ends here."

Right now I'm at the stage of not wanting to ever leave. Over half way through and what have I got to show for myself..

Reality struck and I realsied that when I get back to Scotland, I will properlly need to get my head down and attend to some serious buisness! Yup, it's dissertation time. Writting has never been my strong point.

Thats not to say that uni life here in Finland isn't serious! Its just..I feel so happy and inspired here...maybe I will use my experience of Finland as the topic of disccusion. I feel that some important emails with my endless questions will have to be sent very soon!

I need to remember that sometimes actions speak louder than words and sometimes a picture tells 100.


Over and out.

Vihaan polkupyörät...

So after being in Lapland for about 2 months now, I have learned that I hate bicylces. I have almost been run over, been scared to death by a sharp ring at 8am in the morning and generally find it difficult to ride one! So..this drawing is part of one of my projects that I will hand in at the end of the semester.

Little Blue bike,
So innocent and pure.
You won't run me over?
I'm not so sure!

It doesnt matter the day,

the time or the week,

but on the driver

who'll make me feel bleak.