Category Archives: Ib Spang Olsen Gallery

Trolls, trees and girls. That’s Ib Spang Olsen. A much loved and prolific artist, who’s long term partnership with Scandinavia’s king of literary nonsense, Halfdan Rasmussen, was to set the standard for children’s books throughout the last quarter of a century. In his illustrations Letters have small feet, because as the artist says “I have … Continue reading Trolls, trees and girls →

Ib Spang Olsen has mostly found his way into people hearts through his imaginative illustrations, but his drawing did not always just stay on paper. Sometimes Spang Olsen would carve images into pottery that had not yet been hardened and later on he would become even more involved in the ceramic process. A lot of … Continue reading The ceramist Ib Spang Olsen →