Anorak Magazine: Isle of PO

I have an illustration in the latest issue of Anorak Magazine. I've been wanting to do something for them for a really long time so it was a little bit of a dream come true when they asked me to illustrate a story for them!

Let's Fika! exhibition

Me and some friends are putting on an illustration exhibition at Fika on 161 Brick lane in a couple of weeks.  It's a visual celebration of the tradition of Fika, featuring the work of 6 Swedish illustrators; Hanna Melin, Emma Löfström, Danijela Dobric, Åsa Wikman, Martin Wollerstam and me. 

The exhibition shows our different interpretations of what fika means. It's also about Sweden being Swedish; the smell of your grandmother freshly bakes cinnamon buns, long light summer nights, summer vacations that never ends and going swimming in cool black lakes.

The private view is on the 13th of September between 4-6.30pm, if you want to come along please RSVP with the subject line Let's Fika to wikmanillustration(a)gmail.com. It'd be great to see as many of you as possible there!

Raymond Savignac

Right now I'm working on a commission where I was asked to have a look at the french illustrator Raymond Savignac for inspiration. I'd never heard of him before but I really like his work so I thought I'd share it with you. 

Brown Paper Bag

My works been featured on a lot of blogs recently (which is kind of weird as I haven't been spending nearly as much time on it this past month as I used to, it might have something to do with Mallory putting my Skate Grrrls image on Illustrated Ladies) This time it's Brown Paper Bag saying nice things about me. Thanks!

The Le Sigh Feature

The Le Sigh is a blog run by three girls living together in one Brooklyn flat. The editor-in-Chief, Diana Cirullo, got in touch with me about featuring my work in something that they call Girl Spotlight. She sent me a couple of questions and it all resultet in this really nice feature on the blog. You can read it here: http://www.thelesigh.com/2012/07/girl-spotlight-karin-soderquist.html#more

Today is the day...

Today has been a good day. I had a job interview in the morning and in the afternoon they called and said that the job was mine if I wanted it. Between that I had a raspberry and salt liquorice flavoured cupcake at Cupcake Sthlm...

and saw the Klara Kristalova exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall. It was really good and completely insane.  

The Best of Torbjörn's Bookshelf

The first two months in Stockholm me and my boyfriend are staying in a flat that we're borrowing from a relative of mine. It's in a beautiful part of town, close to the water and 2 minutes from the park. It's got high ceilings, paintings on the walls and a bookshelf filled with old books and records. I was having a look and I found some books with really good looking covers. Here's my favourites from the collection:

The last one is probably more funny than good but there's still something about the composition that I like.

Places I've lived in London

These are the places I lived during my almost 4 years in London. I don't miss the flats themselves but I'm starting to miss how easy it is to find somewhere to live in London. The standard is usually a bit shit but at least you can find somewhere to rent when you need to. And I really miss having my own flat with my own work space. Finding somewhere to live in Stockholm is a bloody nightmare!

Plog Magazine Feature

I had some work featured on Plog Magazine's blog, hooray! http://plogmagazine.com/archives/6316

Skate Grrrls v.2