Kendra Bulgrin and Jimmy Eddings from Kansas, USA, are now working in the studio at Eyvindartunga. We also have three writers: Hlín Agnarsdóttir from Iceland and Kathleen Lee and Miriam Sagan from New York, USA. Rósa Helgadóttir, textile designer from Iceland, is also here for the second time and we welcome her. Everybody is having a good time at Gullkistan. Read More
We are now welcoming the first guests to the Eyvindartunga farmhouse.
There are three rooms upstairs available and some vacancies this summer.
We call the rooms Litlaá, Sandá and Djúpá, these are names of the rivers surrounding the farm. Read More
Always very surprising when Strokkur shows his power. Read More
15 years ago we opened the first art festival.
Thank you all, dear family, friends, guests and creative people for everything.
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On june 17th 1995 the Gullkistan art festival was opened in Laugarvatn. More than 130 artists of different fields took part all over the village.
The second festival was opened on june 17th in 2005 with even more participants. Art everywhere and other activities including the Gullsprettur run and the midnight walk to the Gullkistan mountain.
Since then we have worked on our dream to make Laugarvatn the paradise for creative people from all around the world. The Gullkistan residency welcomed the first guest in june 2009.
June 17th this year we celebrate the 15 year anniversary and invite everyone to visit us at the Eyvindartunga farm between 4 and 6.
Today we had our first open studio day at Eyvindartunga with Sharyn M. Finnegan and Peter Byrne artists from N.Y, U.S.A.
The studio at Eyvindartunga will be open between 4 and 6 on friday june 4th as
Sharyn Finnegan will show the drawings and paintings she has made during her residency.
“In this oil painting I put a still life with a Laugarvatn landscape, as well as a partial self portrait in the mirror…I love the idea of lots of things in tiny packages. On this trip, my landscape drawings seem to be bigger and looser than the paintings. The truly awesome Icelandic landscape inspires me in different ways.”
