About Stiine Liv
Hi! I’m Stiine Liv — a multi passionated artist, craftswoman and chief fairy. My mission is to make my life a playground while nurturing the magic in my life 🧚♂️
Magic, botanics and nature
My soul is calling for more play and magic time, and that’s why the art and crafts that I make are centred around the subtle magic of nature and our surrounding world. Therefore you will also meet a plentiful of fairy friends, magical flowers, dreamy landscapes and natural, organic materials in my creations.
I simply adore anything whimsical and I’m very drawn to the worlds that might be beyond the one that meets the eye. The love for these worlds, the magical and fantastical, goes hand in hand with my vision and philosophy for creating art.
I love trying new techniques and materials, and merging them. Common for most of the art and crafts I make, is the connection to flowers or plants.
More playfulness, less perfectionism
I use creative expression as a playground to explore the possibility of embracing what might be perceived as imperfections and learning to let loose of control, and I’m still practising. I’ve experienced how practising this in my creative processes, has had an impact on my way of being in the world in general. I’ve been at war with perfectionism for many years, and I have found crafting to be soothing and therapeutic in such a way, that I have begun to see the white flag waving from perfectionism’s quarters. I have found this to have a rippling effect throughout my life.
Creativity and crafting challenges my mental patterns and ideas about how ‘to do’ life in the simplest yet symbolic ways; like when the watercolors simply demand me to give up on control in order not to be overworked, or when one knot leads to a new pattern when making macramé. I’m learning to give up on perfectionism that prevents me from having fun, not just in creative endeavours, but also in life.
Nurturing the spirit of playfulness
Prioritising to have fun rather than to make perfect, has lead me on a way to embrace and nurture the playful and child-like attributes of myself and my surroundings, while embracing the beauty of mistakes, giving life to the little magic that is already around us.
I celebrate the joy of creating and experimenting with both materials and techniques. I love exploring new crafts, materials and techniques, and combining them with the ones I already know to create mixed media art. For an example, I love bringing water colors to life with dried, pressed flowers, or to make linocuts more lively with water colors.
Embracing my own playfulness has also lead me on a mission to encourage the playful spirit in you, to take ourselves less seriously, to dare to craft, create and have fun without doing it “right”. Cheers to having fun and not being so very serious about ourselves all the time!
Materials and sustainability thoughts
When I have the option, I buy either reused, recycled, ecological or in other ways more sustainable materials. I care a great bit about reusing materials and minimising the ones I use when creating.
For an example, I like to create macramé wall hangers with carefully selected secondhand pots and vases, I like to use pre-used frames, I like to make sure to keep scraps of yarn and crepe paper for new projects, and I find materials in the dumpster or at times, even on the street.
It is an ongoing process to learn about the production of materials and finding new, more sustainable ones. In the future, I’m striving to make art that is made of materials from cruelty-free and as sustainable sources as possible.
