Ingela Berntsson

"After the linen has been mangled to a shiny finish, the light reflects differently from the warp and weft threads. If you walk 90 degrees round the table, the pattern is reversed - the dark parts become light and the light parts dark. It's like magic."

Born in 1950, on the island of "Stora Askerö" in the Bohus archipelago on the West Coast of Sweden. Between 1971 and 1975, Ingela Berntsson trained as a textile stylist at the Gothenburg School of Applied Art. On completion on her studies at the Gothenburg School of Applied Art, she came to Klässbol as an apprentice weaver in 1976. Right from the start, weaving was the textile technique which interested her most. As she says herself, she was "completely taken" by weaving and the people at the mill. Linen is the fabric which fascinates Ingela Berntsson most. She has been extremely interested in developing different techniques for increasing the expressive powers of the woven picture.

Ingela Berntsson works not only with textile design but also with painting. Not least because she believes painting to be the foundation of all other kinds of picture production. Her exhibitions include: Röhsska Museum (Gothenburg), Nordisk Textiltrienal, and Konstforum (Norrköping).