Emilia Ilke

The Swedish artist Emilia Ilke has created the collection Sea Sea Sea for Fine Little Day – A collection celebrating the sea and all its treasures.

The Swedish artist Emilia Ilke has created the collection Sea Sea Sea for Fine Little Day – A collection celebrating the sea and all its treasures. Ilke was born in Uppsala in 1984 and raised by Swedish-Polish parents. The family’s eye-catching surname she got from her grandfather who fabricated it to stand out from the crowd. She is educated at Gerlesborgsskolan and works and resides from Stockholm as an artist. We praise Ilke’s artistic language and her productivity that is greater than most. Emilia Ilke is just as she describes her pattern VÅG (Wave) – a force beyond the ordinary.

The collection Sea Sea Sea is about the eye-catching finds under water. A dream of being that little fish swirling the waves, hiding among shells and escaping slimy jellyfishes. And as for a moment take a swipe across the surface of the water to enjoy the beautiful sight of sunbathing people under red-striped umbrellas and then disappear in the big blue again.

The collection consists of several patterns on textile; cushion covers, fabric by the meter, tablecloths, curtain, wool blanket, muslin blankets, trays and more.

Emilia Ilke - Fine Little Day

"The shell, a symbol of travel. Not only beautiful to the eye, they are bearers of memories and an ear away from the sound of the beach, the sea. For Emilia, they take her back to the summers spent outside Oskarshamn as a child with grandfather Ilke."

Have you always known that you would pursue art and what was your childhood like?
I wasn’t that kind of kid that was constantly drawing growing up. My childhood was more about playing the violin and choir singing. Something I was more or less forced to and kind of learned to like but never felt very strong for. I started to paint a lot when I was about 15 yo and that’s also when my dream about being an artist or illustrator woke up.
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