The Sea in “The Old Days,” a mural in the children’s exhibition at the Österlen Museum.
The Österlen Museum in Simrishamn wanted to create a play-based exhibition, in which children can experience the traditional coastal society with small-scale fishing and an ocean full of life. My colleague Anna Berg and I were given a 2×5-meter wall to create a painting of the sea as it used to look.
Client
Österlens museum, Simrishamns kommunCreative Field
IllustrationProject Type
Mural/Wall Art, Public ArtTechnique
2D
The mural was created using egg-tempera to harmonize with the traditional materials and colors used throughout the rest of the exhibition. Photo: Anna Berg
Here you can see some of the main inhabitants: herring, eel, cod, and gray seal. A lush eelgrass bed grows on the seabed.
To get a picture of the local marine environment, with its jagged cliffs and unique algae communities, we began the work by snorkeling.
A grey seal is hunting herring.
My colleague is painting the wooden rowboat, which is the same type as the rowboat you can play with in the exhibition.
