The Jubilee Art Show & Open house was opened at the Bergendal Meeting by the musician and singer Peter Lundblad. Then all the artists hurried home to open their studios or working places for visitors, who wanted to see more than the 1-2 examples of one artist.

The orange streamer fluttered in the lovely weather. It was SPRING!

- Gallerie Garage - opened in its usual place, and we had around 80 visitors, not so many as last years. Many came on bikes, that was nice, and I had made some new paintings from Tour de France.

It is easy to imagine to be there, even if the TV pictures are blurry and disappear quickly. The colours and the shapes, the bikers' shirts, and the shadows of them on their bikes during sunny days, stimulate the imagination. Mountain stages, finish in rain, bikers in a long row after each other on a narrow path, or through a field of sunflowers ...

It is nice to hear so much appreciation for "Tour de Sollentuna", and about my art in our homemade "gallery"!

Thank you for coming! Welcome back 2010 in April
We hope we can make a new Art Show & Open House next year, too!

Sponsors during the weekend were: Bergendal Meetings, Sollentuna kommun, Svenska kyrkan i Sollentuna, Samglas, AGE, L & J Screen AB , BD märkteknik AB, Perssons, Renprodukter, Annorlunda små, Mapema, beawinner, Sollentuna Bildemontering, Sjöbergshallen, Lillis Konstmaterial, Thomas Barbershop

Thank you dear sponsors! :-)

Margareta and her paintings at Bergendal Meeting before the opening ceremony.

We had got one motive printed on the T-shirts we used back home in our own "gallery".
Surprise ;-)

The WELCOME shelf of 2009!

Lavendar bags, fresh herbs as basil, spearmint, red onion leaves, and rosemary in a pot on a table at the door, in the Mediterranean corner, and BookCrossing shelves on the side. One of the books from my releases has been to the Antarctica, New Zealand and is now on its way to Canada. Bookcrossing is fun!

The first visitors.

d Swoooosh! En route in Tour de France! Mountain stage in the Alpes Finish in heavy rain La Vuelta and the Spanish plateau Sunflower field in Provence La Mancha in Spain Tulips - experiment with a thick Chinese brush Words by Alf Henrikson afternoon in March, sparkling snow, I step right into the sun Haiku by Peter Bodis Poem by Alf Henrikson Peony and my own Japanese sign stamp - a gift from friends The Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) I have always been fascinated by Photography, and my first camera was an Agfa Klack, 1956, I still have it. Also I got the catalogue of the brilliant photo exhibition "Family of Man", and later books by famous photographers. I love to study how light brings out colours and shapes. At the Art School I learned and got experience about the black-white darkroom, but the modern digital treatment of photos is sometimes easier, and I need not use any badly smelling chemicals either. My private rainforest - Fraxinus tree outside the window Morell ballerina   In Sigtuna town, north of Stockholm, window stilleben/still life   Dahlia Never judge before you know -- Mr Sourpuss was sweet! Tragopogon seed - only one left of the fluff ball The rowing boat in Edsviken . Spring and the weeks of the Hepatica species. At the parking place at Bergendal Meeting 22nd of April More paintings are available at > The Artist's < page with thumbnails to click!

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See you next year again in April 2010!
We will try to continue this annual event! It will be the 11th!!

Pär and daughter Sara's wooden angel - our gallery sign, easy to remember

Please, check >NEWS desk< for more informatin, in March 2010!

Link, in Swedish, to Sollentunas Konstronda HERE

Still you can see pages with the Art Show 2006, and 2007, 2008