About
Line Nilsen is a Norwegian artist, designer and hand weaver based in Nottingham. Her practice centres around craft, design and process, exploring material and colour to create contemporary work. Nilsen’s woven art is an emotional response to the arctic landscape where she grew up, where the extreme absence and presence of light throughout the seasons have strong influence on mind and body.
Highly skilled in weaving on a hand loom, Nilsen’s work is grounded in subtly complex and innovative weaves that use a variety of yarns including linen, cotton, wool and paper. Her processes include painting sections of the warp before weaving. Light, colour and texture is formed both on the surface of the canvas like a painting and within the weave itself, positioning the work somewhere between painting and weaving. The delicate textures of the weaves offer a tactile quality to the work.
