Based in Victoria, BC, Sharon is a Canadian artist who loves capturing the spirit of places. She has been in Skagaströnd for one month and will be here for another, soaking in both the dramatic Icelandic landscape and the creative energy of the artists around her. 

With the studio situated right next to the water, she loves watching the ever-changing waves and swirling seafoam. Long walks exploring the coastline before or after her time in the studio have become part of her routine, allowing her to take in the shifting light and raw beauty of the landscape. Sharon has been captivated by the slow reveal of spring—watching the snow melt to uncover bursts of color, witnessing the dramatic shifts in light as storms roll in from the sea, and looking up each night in hopes of catching the dancing Northern Lights. As the weather warms, you’ll find her outside with her sketchbook, capturing quick impressions before translating them into larger watercolor paintings back in the studio. Every day brings something new to experience, shaping the way she sees and translates the world onto paper.

You can see more of her work at www.artbysharonlam.com or on Instagram @artbysharonlam

Simone Gericke is an artist based near Berlin. Currently in Skagaströnd for March 2025.

Has been working for years with figurative painting, drawing, linocuts and woodcuts, sculpture and photography. Works with different materials, with a focus on oil painting; inspired by encounters with people and nature.

More on instagram @simone.gericke

Robert Gericke is an artist and family doctor. In his work, he deals intensively with social
and political issues of the time. Robert Gericke draws his themes from his biography, as
a contemporary witness to the Monday demonstrations in 1989 and the fall of the Berlin
Wall, the mass unrest in Johannesburg before the abolition of apartheid, from his
military deployments in war zones (Kosovo, Bosnia and Afghanistan), as an observer of
refugee camps on Lesbos and as a GP during the coronavirus pandemic, and as an artist
in residence in Israel in 2024 and in Iceland in 2025.

Robert creates works in a predominantly dark and muted colour palette with oil paints
on canvas or beech wood both al a prima or with underpainting in several layers. He
often uses materials he has used himself or found that have a special meaning for him
or are charged with content by time or place. He subjects these to a transformation
process such as melting, bending or environmental influences to which the material has
been exposed, such as corrosion or abrasion by the sea. They are often used in his
works as religious, military or mythological symbols. The forms emancipate themselves
from the transformed materials, first as underpaintings and then as independent,
mystical figures. They could be bred hybrids of living creatures and machines, even war
machines, or they could spring from an earth that man has long since ceased to control.
Robert Gericke wants to be an eyewitness and develops his pictures from what he has
experienced.

With surrealistically transformed figures, their metamorphosis and an independent
material iconography, he encourages the viewer to reflect.

You can see more of Robert’s work on his website https://www.robertgericke.com/

Adéla Valchařová lives in the Czech Republic. Last year, she graduated with a BA from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and is now pursuing an MA in the painting studio at the same institution. In the spring of 2022, she completed an internship at the University of Art and Design in Cluj, Romania.  

In her current work, she continuously explores landscape painting. She is interested in how the aesthetic perception of landscapes has evolved throughout history. She creates minimalist spaces that are defined by their silence, vastness, and remoteness. 

Her inspiration comes from the aesthetics of sci-fi landscapes bearing traces of human presence, with an air of ambiguity about whether life and people are still there or not. Her paintings resemble distant worlds or post-apocalyptic scenery, where natural elements take on geometric precision. The color palette consists of muted, earthy tones, reinforcing a sense of melancholy and silence. 

She first visited Iceland last summer, working on a farm. The Icelandic landscape, characterized by its empty expanses and towering mountains, captivated her so deeply that she wanted to return, immerse herself in its solitude, and focus on intense, concentrated painting during her stay in NES.  You can see more of Adéla’s work on her instagram page https://www.instagram.com/adelvalcharova/

Daniel Rode is a Dresden and Berlin based conceptual artist, drawing and installation.

Currently in Skagaströnd for March and April 2025. You can view more of Daniel’s work on his website – https://danielrode.de/

Agnes Black is a visual artist based in Brooksville, Florida. She holds
a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Social and Emerging
Media at the University of Tampa. Her academic journey reflects a deep
commitment to both traditional and contemporary art forms, blending
classical techniques with technology.

Agnes’ artistic repertoire is diverse, encompassing painting, 3D art,
sculpture, and immersive installations. Her works are known for their
vibrant colors, intricate details, and the seamless integration of
various mediums. Recently, she has been delving into the innovative
field of Mad Mapping, experimenting with visual light projection to
enhance her paintings and sculptures. This exploration allows her to
create dynamic, interactive art experiences that engage viewers on
multiple sensory levels.

Living in Brooksville, Agnes draws inspiration from the natural beauty
of Florida, as well as the bustling urban landscapes she encounters
during her stays in Tampa. Her art is a reflection of her surroundings,
infused with a sense of place and a deep appreciation for the interplay
between nature and technology. www.agnesblackart.com

Vittoria Chierici is a painter originally from Bologna, she lives and works in Eastport, Maine. In the 1980s, she participated in important groups of young artists, whose works culminated in the exhibition Examples of New Italian Art at the Riverside Studios in London in 1989. In the same year, Vittoria Chierici was nominated to represent Italy at the international exhibition in Tokyo, 7 Artists. In the late 1990s, Chierici began work on a new mixed media project on the historical theme of the Battle of Anghiari, based on a lost mural by Leonardo Da Vinci. A large painting of the same subject, Anghiari Verde, is also permanently exhibited at the Humanities Initiative, New York University. Since 2004, Chierici has begun a series of collaborations with American artists working in different art forms: choreographer Liz Gerring, composer Eve Beglarian. In 2010, Chierici participated in the project No Soul for Sale, organized by the art gallery Lucie Fontaine at the Tate Modern Gallery in London. In 2011, Chierici commissioned violinist and composer Ana Milosavljevic to write the music for her latest video project, Luci in the Sky, directed by director Yuko Takebe. Vittoria Chierici’s paintings and video installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Italy and abroad.

In 2012, Chierici was invited to participate in the group exhibition Estate, organized by Lucie Fontaine at the Marianne Boesky gallery in New York.

In 2012, Vittoria Chierici created the project Sailing away to Paint the Sea, based on a journey on a cargo ship from Holland to Cleveland, Ohio. In 2021, she presented the project The Philosophers’ Clothes at the Rossi&Rossi gallery in Hong Kong, with which she collaborates and with which she exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong and at TEFAF in Maastrichtm and at Arte Fiera 2025 in Bologna.

She has returned to Skagaströnd after ten years to improve upon ideas and techniques in painting the Arctic light.

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Jesús Robisco is at NES working on the UNO:UNO project. A project of 50 photos to promote the great value of dance in Spain. He has come to NES for two months in search of peace, to focus his work on this project.

Jesús Robisco holds a degree in Physical Education from the Autonomous University of Madrid. By chance, he discovered a link between corporal expression in dance and photography. It was then that he decided to change teaching for dance photography. Although he has always been self-taught, he undertook formal photographic studies. He then went on to do the Professional Photography Course at the prestigious School of Photography and Image Centre in Madrid (EFTI – Escuela de Formación de Técnicos de la Imagen). He completed his studies with a Master of Photography in «Concept and Creation» also at «EFTI». Jesus Robisco specializes in dance and movement. He works mainly between Barcelona and Madrid, however has also worked with several international dance companies across the globe.

Publications

Collaborates with the Suzy-Q Dance magazine team and publishes in The New York Times, Unblogdedanza,  Danza.es, ARTESCÉNICAS – Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España, El País, La Marea, El Duende Magazine, Balletymás and Tiempo de Danza.

Awards


Official selection Barbican Screen3 London 2019

Official selection Short On Tap-Londos 2019


International meeting Videodance and Videoperformance in Universidad de Valencia 2017


Official selection Agite y Sirva 2016

Best videodance VIII Festival Internacional de Video Arte de Barcelona 2015

Official selection BANG VIII Festival Internacional de Video Arte de Barcelona 2015


1ª Muestra de Video Danza Desterro Florianópolis Brasil 2013


12º Festival Danzalborde 2013 Valparaiso, Chile
Official selection Agite y Sirva 2013


5º Festival Itinerante de Videodanza de Oxaca, Mexico 2013


2º Festival Angelopolitano de Danza de Puebla, Mexico 2013


5º Festival Itinerante de Videodanza Mexico City, Mexico 2013.

Web site www.jesusrobisco.com

Instagram @jesusrobisco

Jen Fitzgerald is a poet, essayist, photographer, and a native New Yorker who received her MFA in Poetry at Lesley University and her BA in Writing at The College of Staten Island (CUNY). Her essays, poetry, and photography has been featured widely, over the past decade, in venues such as The Nation, PBS Newshour, Tin House, Boston Review, NER, Colorado Review among others.

Her first collection of poetry, “The Art of Work” was published by Noemi Press in September of 2016. It follows the working realities of New York City’s Butcher’s Union, UFCW Local 342, through job sites on all five boroughs and upstate–intermingling her family’s working-class lineage and current lives with those of the documented and undocumented members populating our grocery stores, processing plants, slaughter houses, and agri-farms.

As a community activist and organizer, she has hosted free-for-the-community Grassroots Workshops, created spaces for the literary community to organize outside of academia, hosted podcasts and readings, organized the literary community around issues of representation in publishing as Count Director for The VIDA Count, worked in tandem with the National Writer’s Union to organize at AWP, and started the campaign for Staten Island to name its first ever Poet Laureate.
She works with organizations to bring writing & literacy workshops to incarcerated youth and adults on Rikers Island and other jails/institutions around NYC. 

You can view more of Jen’s work at https://jenfitzgerald.com/