Studio

Hello, I’m Ottoline.

I’m an illustrator in Oslo. Most weeks I walk the same three routes, the allotments, the harbour and the market, and most of what I draw comes from those walks.

In 2023 I bought a second-hand riso drum that had spent ten years in a school office. It lives in the shed now. It only does two colours at a time, it smudges if the shed is warm, and it has changed how I draw: every picture starts as two separate black layers, one for each ink.

Prints come out in small numbered editions, usually 30 to 75. When one sells out I don’t reprint it. Zines are the cheaper, looser side of the same work.

Commissions

I take on book covers, posters, labels and small editions for shops and cafés. If you have a brief, a deadline or just a feeling, write to me and I’ll reply within a week.