“Which story with the sled…?” my father asked, when I called him in Iceland and asked him to tell it… Read more: THE MYSTERIOUS INCIDENT WITH THE SLED

Ginkgo leaves come in very different shapes, all within one ancient species and sometimes even within one tree. Apparently, its… Read more: GINKGO

More experiments with photos that I washed out with acetone and printed onto new paper under the printing press. A… Read more: MIRAGES II

Two seemingly similar Svalbard plants, with subtle differences. Both linocuts.

Attempt to capture the iconic basalt rocks of Gerðuberg, Iceland in a mulit layer linoprint. Lessons:

I’ve been thinking about the word “impression”. Landscapes, plants and other creatures can make profound impressions on us, that are… Read more: LEAF PRINTS III

My wish for 2025: that we marvel at this Arctic fjord and glacier front, feel its beauty and acknowledge that… Read more: COLD VIEW

Rising temperatures and precipitation regimes have a profound impact on permafrost ecosystems. Thawing of permafrost, destabilization of mountain slopes, changes… Read more: Melting Mountains II

Rising temperatures and precipitation regimes have a profound impact on permafrost ecosystems. Thawing of permafrost, destabilization of mountain slopes, changes… Read more: Melting Mountains I

Solid, frozen ground becomes soft and fluid. Crisp snow becomes heavy rain. Memories of faraway places fade out and get… Read more: Liquify

More interesting leaves, found on a walk on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug in late August. I first press and dry the… Read more: Leaf Prints II

My very first paid assignment! The Arctic biology department at UNIS asked me to make a linocut of Saxifraga oppositifolia,… Read more: Saxifraga

I like to collect and press leaves, and then use them for printmaking. I found a forgotten stack of pressed… Read more: Leaf Prints

After a short trip from Longyearbyen to the UNIS student cabin in Bjorndalen, we climbed Fuglefjella. It was a splendid… Read more: High Hopes

A new series of acetone transfer prints of research activities on Svalbard in summer 2023. We used an irrigation setup… Read more: The Nature of Rain

The topmost layers of permafrost soils go through cycles of thawing and refreezing each year, like a breathing and living… Read more: Restless bones

I used acetone transfer printing on some photos that I took during my 2023 field campaign on Svalbard. The nebulous… Read more: Mirages

Many of my colleagues and friends are birdwatchers. I’ve always joked around with them that birds are extremely overrated, compared… Read more: Birds

High-Arctic plants species challenge you to get on all fours, with your face very close to the ground, and take… Read more: Some Svalbard Plants

A linocut of the old cable cart systems in Endalen, used to transport coals from the mines to the harbour.… Read more: Endalen

Prints of a dried rowan leaf. I laid the dried leaf on a sheet of linoleum with paint rolled on.… Read more: Rowan

Mountain ranges of Vaðlaheiði, as seen from Hjalteyri across the fjord. Linocuts printed in several layers, with slightly different colours… Read more: Vaðlaheiði

Pyramiden used to be a Soviet mining settlement, a kind of polar and communist version of the American dream. Only… Read more: Miru Mir

In winter 2020 we were still optimistic that the covid pandemic would have passed before summer, and that our preparation… Read more: Waiting to return

An important component of my PhD research was to identify succession mechanisms in tundra areas that had collapses and become… Read more: Succession

Prints of dried oak leaves pressed onto linoleum with paint rolled on. Even the “failed” prints can become something interesting… Read more: Oak

Part of my PhD research consisted of tree ring analysis on the Arctic dwarf birch, Betula nana. I’ve come to… Read more: Messages in wood

Birches always remind me of the north, with downy birch and dwarf birch being common species in subarctic and arctic… Read more: Birch

A tiny village on Snæfellsnes, Jules Verne’s last stop before entering the volcano in Journey to the Center of the… Read more: Arnarstapi

Throughout the Netherlands there are traces in the landscape of former ice ages and times when the Netherlands was a… Read more: Relic Species

Linocut of a rock, printed in different styles.

Thawing of permafrost is more than just a phase transition from solid to liquid water in the ground. It is… Read more: Thaw

A linocut of the abandoned farm near Raufarhöfn. I dabbed away the paint a little bit with tissue to create… Read more: Rifstangi

A print of a dried fern leaf. I laid the dried fern leaf (the common polypody) on a sheet of… Read more: Fern

The last place you hope to find your work is in your beer glass in the weekend. But the foamy… Read more: Mindfuck