Original Art Under 2,000 DKK

Owning an original does not have to mean spending thousands. Under 2,000 kroner covers a lot here — from a small wall mask you hang on a single nail, through to framed relief work that arrives ready to go straight up. All of it made once, signed, and never repeated.

A Blue Devil — about 20 cm, with a hanger on the back, 800 DKK

Key Takeaways

• The smallest paper pulp pieces start at 800 kroner. They are the cheapest genuine originals in the shop.
• Those are around 20 cm, come with a hanger, and need no frame.
• Between 1,200 and 1,800 kroner you get framed work, ready to hang — in paper pulp, paper clay or cardboard.
• Every piece is signed and exists once. The price follows size and hours, not reproduction.
• Keep them dry. Paper and water do not get along.

Why the small ones cost less

Size, mostly. A 20 cm wall mask takes a fraction of the material and the hours that a 50 × 70 cm relief does, and it needs no handmade frame. Nothing about the making is cheaper — the pulp is mixed the same way, dried the same way, painted the same way. There is just less of it.

That makes them the honest entry point. You are not buying a lesser version of something; you are buying a smaller one.

Volcano Part — a fragment, painted black with blue drops set into the surface, 900 DKK

What you get

• No framing needed. Each of the small pieces has a hanger on the back and goes straight on the wall. Several also sit well on a shelf.
• Real texture. The pulp dries rough and uneven, so the surface catches light differently through the day. Photographs flatten this more than they should.
• Signed, and only one. No prints exist of the paper pulp work — the original is the only version there will ever be.
• Surplus material. Made from offcuts of fine art paper or machine-cut cardboard, bound with a paste of flour, water, salt and vinegar.

Colorful Paper Pulp Creature — hangs either way up, and becomes a different thing, 900 DKK

Between 1,000 and 2,000 kroner

Above a thousand kroner the work changes character. The pieces get larger, and they arrive framed — which means the frame was chosen while the work was being made, and is part of the piece rather than something added afterwards.

Five sit in this range at the moment:

• White Relief — 19 × 19 cm, framed. Made from thick Freja fine art paper with a paste of flour, water, salt and vinegar, and left unpainted, so the whole piece is a play of light and shadow across a white surface. 1,200 DKK.
• The Blue Torii Gate — 19 × 25 cm, layered acid-free cardboard painted with blue linoleum paint, in a reclaimed oak frame. The layers throw different shadows as the light moves. 1,200 DKK.
• The paper pulp floating cloth framed — 32 × 40 cm. One of the first pieces I made. The pulp "cloth" hangs from fishing thread inside a black-painted frame, so it floats behind the glass. 1,500 DKK.
• Ancient Handmade Paper Clay Relief Art — 30 × 40 cm framed, about 4 cm deep. Paper clay rather than pulp, carved by hand into patterns that read like fragments of old tile work. 1,500 DKK.
• Paper pulp rocket man — 30 × 40 cm framed, in blue-painted oak. Soft pastel and linoleum paint over hand-formed pulp, so the colour sits differently on the raised areas than in the recesses. 1,800 DKK, the largest in this range.

Rocket Man — 30 × 40 cm in blue-painted oak, 1,800 DKK

What the frame is doing

These pieces sit off the surface. The layers are cut and raised so the work throws its own shadow, and that only reads properly if the frame gives it depth — two or three centimetres, sometimes four.

So the frame is not packaging. Its colour, its width, whether the wood is painted or left raw — all of it is decided while the piece is being made. Sending one of these unframed would mean handing over something unfinished.

The Blue Torii Gate — layered cardboard in a reclaimed oak frame, 1,200 DKK

Looking after them

One rule: keep them away from moisture. No damp cloths, no bathrooms, no kitchen wall directly above a kettle. Dust with a dry cloth or a soft brush and they will last indefinitely. Everything else — sunlight, ordinary heating, being moved between homes — is fine.

As a gift

An original is a better gift than its price suggests, because the person receiving it owns the only one. If it needs to arrive by a particular date, email me before ordering and I will tell you honestly whether it will make it.