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Marie Louise Kold – available works

This page presents works in etched and patinated copper, bronze and brass, currently available from my studio. Choose a collection below to see the works and their details, or browse examples in the gallery at the foot of the page, where you can filter by category.

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Copper books
Books made of patinated copper, sometimes with cast bronze or etched copper elements and, not infrequently, mushrooms. Each is a sculptural object.
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Catalogue (pdf 4.2MB)

Marie Louise Kold's studio, showing a large hanging sheet of blue patinated copper foil, wall-hung artworks and a black leather armchair next to a fireplace.

Studio Selection
Individual works, in a selection that changes as new pieces are finished and others find their new homes.
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In the Forest Clearing by Marie Louise Kold: an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman mounted on the inside of the lid of an open green metal box, with the small sections on the right hand side filled with patinated copper structures and mushrooms, seedpods and letters, all cast in bronze and patinated.

The Gunnar Norrman Inspiration
Works inspired by, and incorporating, original drypoint plates by Gunnar Norrman, Sweden’s foremost drypoint artist, given new life in my works.
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New Life – After All by Marie Louise Kold: an irregular rectangle of near-black patinated copper with some holes and some nails coming through them, a tear in the middle with bright copper flowers shoing underneath and a section of greeny-black patinated text and thin copper wire one side.

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Copper from the tower of Malmö’s old Central Post Office, patinated over a century, now carrying its 1906 origin into a second life as art.
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Wilderness Survival Manual by Marie Louise Kold: Copper book with a turquoise patinated copper cover with a corner torn off and glowing red copper pages showing underneath.
Wilderness Survival Manual [Copper Books]
Unexpected Life by Marie Louise Kold: Copper from 1906, green and brown patina, three-dimensionally shaped on a black background and with copper mushrooms growing out of it.
Unexpected Life [TRANSIT]
Nordic Shield by Marie Louise Kold: Old patinated green copper, shaped like an ancient face shield with etched-through bronze text underneath and copper mushrooms growing through, mounted on a black backdrop.
Nordic Shield [TRANSIT]
The Unstoppable Story: copper book by Marie Louise Kold with wild, golden brown patinated pages. The book is held in a hand, it is open and the pages are whirling.
The Unstoppable Story [Copper Books]
Detail of "Chapter", made by Marie Louise Kold using century old naturally patinated copper, with copper mushrooms growing under and through the bent copper, against a black background.
Chapter (detail) [TRANSIT]
Private Property by Marie Louise Kold: an original Gunnar Norrman drypoint plate of a misty landscape with ruins and an iron gate, set in an oak box above bronze letters spelling PRIVAT and a cast bronze seedpod.
Private Property [The GNI]
Plate Tectonics by Marie Louise Kold: a closeup of a cracked cpatinated copper surface in pale greenish hues, with glowing res copper bursting through the cracks.
Plate Tectonics [Studio Selection]
Marie Louise Kold's studio, showing a large hanging sheet of blue patinated copper foil, wall-hung artworks and a black leather armchair next to a fireplace.
Various works in the studio [Studio Selection]
Heatwave by Marie Louise Kold: intensely orange patinated copper with an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman mounted on top, showing trees and a house, and with deep red etched text to the side of it.
Heatwave [The GNI]
Ethereal Volcanism by Marie Louise Kold: a large rectangular work made of greeny-blue patinated copper with large cracks in it and glowing red copper showing underneath.
Ethereal Volcanism [Studio Selection]
Midsummer Night's Dream by Marie Louise Kold: an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman showing a forest, mounted on black patinated copper indented by handwriting, with a mass of colourful copper flowers and mushrooms coming out from underneath the drypoint.
Midsummer Night’s Dream [The GNI]
Summer Morning by Marie Louise Kold: an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman showing a wooded landscape, mounted in a box clad with green patinated copper.
Summer Morning [The GNI]
In the Forest Clearing by Marie Louise Kold: an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman mounted on the inside of the lid of an open green metal box, with the small sections on the right hand side filled with patinated copper structures and mushrooms, seedpods and letters, all cast in bronze and patinated.
In the Forest Clearing [The GNI]
Nature Guide for Adventurers by Marie Louise Kold: a copper book made of golden orange patinated copper with two mushrooms coming out from under it and rising up on the cover.
Nature Guide for Adventurers [Copper Books]
Dangerous Knowledge by Marie Louise Kold: a copper book with an intense blue patinated cover with a deep hole in the middle, where many layers of copper can be seen, and golden brown patinated pages.
Dangerous Knowledge [Copper Books]
Outpouring by Marie Louise Kold: a patinated old copper cylinder leaning skew on a stack of copper books, with colourful patinated copper letters and envelopers gushing out of it. The work is dispayed on a black base, on top of two old wooden crates.
Outpouring [TRANSIT]
Precious Parcel by Marie Louise Kold: Copper, naturally patinated for more than a century, shaped into a box with etched-through copper text on the top and side like a label and a single tall blue mushroom growing beside it.
Precious Parcel [TRANSIT]
Ferdinand's Sphere by Marie Louise Kold: an old copper globe on a copper box with gold leaf details, a ring of text and small, bright copper flowers growing around it.
Ferdinand’s Sphere [TRANSIT]
PhD Thesis: How to Subdue Mushrooms by Marie Louise Kold: A book makde of reddish brown patinated copper, lying flat on a concrete floor, with two black mushrooms growing up through the cover.
PhD Thesis: How to Subdue Mushrooms [Copper Books]
Two Unforgettable Seasons by Marie Louise Kold: two patinated copper books stacked, with an original Gunnar Norrman drypoint plate incorporated in the blue cover of the top book.
Two Unforgettable Seasons [Copper Books / The GNI]
Book of Alchemical Secrets by Marie Louise Kold, hanging suspended in the 4m tall studio window, in a bright space surrounded by other artwork and a green field and blue sky outside.
Book of Alchemical Secrets in the studio [Copper Books]
Midwinter Dawn by Marie Louise Kold: a square of black patinated copper with a great rip in the center, edged by raw, bright copper, opening up to show a muted dark landscape underneath.
Midwinter Dawn [Studio Selection]
Travel Diary of a Dreamer by Marie Louise Kold, a blue patinated copper book partly covering an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman with an addition of etched-through turquoise copper text, mounted on a black backdrop.
Travel Diary of a Dreamer [Copper Books / The GNI]
Symbiosis by Marie Louise Kold: An angled closeup of an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman with holes along the base of it and brown patinated copper mushrooms goring out through them.
Symbiosis [The GNI]
Bloom by Marie Louise Kold: Detail of an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman, showing a field of dandelions with trees in the background, overlaid by a jumble of green bronze letters spelling out FLOR, entangled with small copper flowers.
Bloom [The GNI]
Incoming Goods by Marie Louise Kold: Century old patinated copper in greens and blacks shaped into boxes piled onto a black wooden pallet, large mushrooms grow next to them and a stack of thin copper pages lie on top.
Incoming Goods [TRANSIT]
Felines and other Magical Creatures by Marie Louise Kold: a patinated copper book held in one hand, with the cover showing a cast bronze medallion with a cat-like head in its center.
Felines and other Magical Creatures [Copper Books]
Guide to the Wilderness by Marie Louise Kold: a brown, red and green patinated copper book, lying open on a black shelf with half of it hanging over the side and an original Gunnar Norrman drypoint plate, showing a wooded landscape, set into the cover.
Guide to the Wilderness [Copper Books / The GNI]
Trial by Fire by Marie Louise Kold: a black and orange patinated copper sculpture like a cannister lying on its side with a green copper lid and copper mushrooms goring out from its inside.
Trial by Fire [TRANSIT]
Calm Before the Storm by Marie Louise Kold: an oak box with two compartments, one has an original Gunnar Norrman drypoint plate showing trees, overlapping a green patinated rectangle of copper and a seedpod underneath, the right hand side has birch bark filling its background and a green cast copper mushroom, and the artist's hand holding it.
Calm Before the Storm [The GNI]
Baroque Gift by Marie Louise Kold: a closeup of a dark patinated copper box with a large tear in it, revealing shiny copper edges and sculpted green copper balusters.
Baroque Gift (detail) [TRANSIT]
Oceanic Emergence by Marie Louise Kold: a rectangle of variegated blue patinated copper with two small tears in it and glowing red copper showing through.
Oceanic Emergence [Studio Selection]
A Scent of Summer by Marie Louise Kold: a tall rectangular box with its front and inside clad with yellow, orange and red patinated copper, brass and bronze, som crumples and some with etched text, and an original drypoint plate by Gunnar Norrman showing a fortification and honeysuckle.
A Scent of Summer [The GNI]
A Promising Tomorrow by Marie Louise Kold: an oak box with etched-through bronze text angled along its base and tiny dark flowers growing through its letters, an original Gunnar Norrman drypoint plate showing a forest mounted inside over a green patinated copper rectangle and bracket mushrooms made of cast copper growing on the inner right-hand side.
A Promising Tomorrow [The GNI]
Silent Witness I + II by Marie Louise Kold: two large columns made of patinated copper, the taller one has darker, warmer hues and the shorter one is patinated green, both shown in a large, bright studio space.
Silent Witness I + II [TRANSIT]
Manifesto by Marie Louise Kold, a detail of a shaped sheet of old, patinated copper with reddish-brown patinated copper scrolls coming out from under it.
Manifesto (detail) [TRANSIT]
New Life – After All by Marie Louise Kold: an irregular rectangle of near-black patinated copper with some holes and some nails coming through them, a tear in the middle with bright copper flowers shoing underneath and a section of greeny-black patinated text and thin copper wire one side.
New Life – After All [TRANSIT]
Life Force by Marie Louise Kold: an oak box with an original Gunnar Norrman drypoint plate, showing a line of willows, mounted in the middle and with a lower, green-backed section in which two patinated red mushrooms are growing of and break through the oak.
Life Force [The GNI]
Separation by Marie Louise Kold: an original Gunnar Norrman drypoint plate, showing trees, mounted on a black backdrop split in two, with lots of small, colourful copper mushrooms filling the gap.
Separation [The GNI]
A Century of Letters by Marie Louise Kold: a closeup of a sculpture made of a century old green patinated copper column, with its inside covered in thin bright copper with text.
A Century of Letters [TRANSIT]
Undelivered by Marie Louise Kold: a thin, rectangular parcel made of light green patinated copper with folds and seams, a rectangle of etched-through reddish brown patinated copper text folding over the side like a label and a round copper leaf mark like a stamp in the corner.
Undelivered [TRANSIT]
Marie Louise Kold's hands holding a large patinated copper leaf.
Flora (detail) [TRANSIT]