Sybille Richter is a jewelry artist based in Weimar, Germany. Her pieces in precious metals, gemstones, aluminum, or self cut stones transform the vast into the miniature, into the small scale. In addition to her own work, Sybille runs the Ring Weimar Gallery, a jewelry gallery specializing in artistic rings. During her time at NES, inspired by the surroundings of Skagaströnd, she is exploring new forms and directions in her artistic practice. Her process is a response to the materials. The conversation between artist and material is central to her creative practice. You can view more of her work at ring-weimar.de and on instagram @ring.weimar

l often collect things or ideas and capture them photographically or in a rough sketch, or I make casts of found objects in order to build something new. This collage-like fusion of natural forms with my own invention creates an interesting tension. Traces of culture (ancient and contemporary) and nature (patterns and plant growth) play a meaningful role. I enjoy the chance elements inherent to the casting process. Cuttlefish casting, for example, involves the rendering of a specific form, combined with a great deal of coincidence.

Born 1967 in Jena, Germany, and educated at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle & Bauhaus-University Weimar, Sibylle now lives and works in Weimar, Germany. You can view more of her work on her website, sibyllemania.de and Instagram @maniasibylle

Frank Rödel says of his pictures, “Landscape is ambivalent. It is chaos and structure at the same time. It is the co-incidence of opposed elements: beauty as well as violence and an indifferent, cold and terrible lack of empathy.”

The view of the landscape from an aeroplane window might remind us of highly polished stones or microbes under a microscope or the arteries of a river delta, the flower patterns of frost on a window pane, rarely seen in our urban world. These are moments where the large and the small in our natural environment, the macro and microcosm, become transparent, and pictures of becoming and passing provoke in us more than purely scientific interest. The Berlin artist Frank Rödel has been on the hunt for such interferences and interpenetrations since the 1980s, when he made painting and also art photography to understand his experience of the world.”

–From “Portrait of the Earth,” Bilder und Zeiten, No. 30, Feb 2023

You can view more of Franks work at https://www.frank-roedel.de/en/

Linda Saul is a visual artist from Reading, UK. She finds Iceland a rich source of inspiration for her highly textured landscape paintings. She produces her paintings using water based mixed media and collage. This is her fourth visit to NES, having now covered all four seasons here. Linda is a member of the prestigious London-based Royal Watercolour Society.

‏Linda is also developing a practice in digital, specifically generative, art. A recently completed MSc in mathematics, including a dissertation on tilings, and a background in computer science has led her to start writing code to produce abstract two-dimensional images.

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Mixed Media IG: @linda.m.saul
Digital Practice IG: @lindasaul.genart