Låvestudioet at Lillehager: Decorative Painting and Tile

 

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The loft in Låvestudioet has many inviting white primed surfaces that wanted to be decorated. I’ve tried to keep the spirits of Charleston (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant) and Per Lysne in mind as I work. 

The red design is my ormmalling (worm painting) finally done outside of a sketchbook. The dino skulls are a work in progress- I think I’m going to do a cycad design in the center. The tiles were acquired as bisqueware and I painted them with Mayco glaze. 

The corgis love to lay at the window and watch the world, especially the magpies.

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The water and fish were painted with watercolor and gouache over Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground.

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Most of the painting is Golden SoFlat Matte Acrylic or Jo Sonja’s Matte Flow Acrylic over primer.

Atelier Luteiventris and Låvestudioet at Lillehager: Decorative Painting

 Making the barn my own with some more decorative painting.

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Golden SoFlat Matte Acrylics on old mystery white primer.

Painting: Somnium navibus og mystike beist

 Acrylic on canvas, 24X36”.

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Reworked and now completed. Dream ships piloted by inter-dimensional fluke worms and inhabited by mythical beasts. This painting has been entered into the 2026 Western Montana Fair.

 

Sculpture:”Låvestudioet skyggedyr”

The loft in Låvestudioet needed a shadow beast, so here’s Låvestudioet skyggedyr!

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Blick Plaster Cloth and Amaco Sculptamold over aluminum armature wire, sculpting mesh and cardboard, 10 1/2”. Finished with Musou Black Acrylcolor and Golden Acrylic paint.

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Above we see Låvestudiet skyggedyr hanging out in the barn loft with the Atelier Luteiventris spirit guide “Birdwoman (In Pearls)” from 2019.

Sculpture: “Ithyphallic Vegetal Conformation”

Sculpture (maquette):“Ithyphallic Vegetal Conformation”. Plaster, 11 1/2 inches.

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Blick Plaster Cloth and USG Hydrocal plaster over aluminum wire armature, finished with Sculpt Nouveau’s Bronze B Metal Coating and their Traditional Patina.

Atelier Luteiventris and Låvestudioet at Lillehager: the ongoing move into new spaces continues.

Låvestudioet has three nice spaces— the ground floor rooms will be used for dusty dirty fun, and the loft will be used for printing and storage.

 One room downstairs will be dedicated to oil painting and fabrication of wood, metal, plaster, etc. The other side will be for clay.

Lots left to move and to get organized.

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©️Montgomery J Nelson

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New Atelier Luteiventris Creative Spaces at Lillehager in the Valley of the Red-Osier Dogwood Waters

 Our new residence Lillihager has two nice creative spaces.

There’s a large open studio above the garage that Boss Nurse and I will share.

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And a small barn with space for a wood, metal, etc. fabrication area and a small ceramics room.

©️Montgomery J Nelson

©️Montgomery J Nelson

Låvestudioet at Lillhager also has a cool loft area above for storage and more workspace. I’ll post more photos as the spaces get developed.