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Hi Anna!! I loved reading this! that leap from observation to imagination is so hard, isn’t it? I think it will forever be my journey! I love how light and free these experiments are! The colours are so beautiful and I love how happy you sound when talking about them too! It would be amazing to see this transform into a book!! 🤞🤞🤞 xxxx

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Oh you’re the best Ella! And oh my goodness I agree. I feel like it will be our endless struggle - and also endlessly interesting and motivating. Probably why i can’t imagine tiring of this work! Thank you xx

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So expressive and full of emotion! I feel like you're really onto something here. Wonderful and enchanting work as always lovely xx

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Thanks so very very much Clair! I feel like something is 'working' somehow too! We shall see :)

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You create magic with your art and magic with your words, and the best is when they are linked together. Thank you for continuing to take us along on your journeys. Seeing the world through your eyes is one of my favorite discoveries in the past several years. <3

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Hi Jenny, Thank you! What a treasure of a comment to read. I feel very honoured that you enjoy my work and my view of the world. Many many thanks xx

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Jun 1Liked by Anna Wilson

Anna, I love reading your posts. Taking in your art and thoughts relating to creativity, art and life leaves me with similar feelings of having a conversation with a good friend.

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Hi Laura,

Thank you for this lovely comment! It is really nice to know you enjoyed reading them. I love writing about it all so it's truly so great to know it's worthwhile :) Thank you! x

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Jun 2Liked by Anna Wilson

You’re welcome! I look forward to catching up on your posts and reading more. xo

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Sep 3Liked by Anna Wilson

Love love LOVE this!! So glad i found you. Love your travelblog AND photo’s AND lovely illustrations. Wow. WOW girl!!!🎉😍

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Oh this is a very very lovely message! So many thanks for cheering me on! Glad you enjoyed it ❤️

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I could stare at your work all day🤩Magic was definitely captured here.

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Oh that’s so lovely to hear. Many many thanks! ❤️

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Hi! I so loved your images on the train to Bergen in the winter. Last week I took the train from Oslo to Bergen and I spent 7 hours staring out the window with my eyes wide open. It’s a magical place.

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Ooh yay!!! I’m so pleased you got to do that magical train ride! I’m lucky enough to be going to do it again in October when my parents visit! I’m so looking forward to it again. So pleased you got to see the magic!

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Such utterly beautiful magical illustrations - would love to have them as a series of prints and even more so in a book 🥰

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Thank you so very very much! That makes me happy :)

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So exciting to hear about the snow in Bergen and recreating the Norway that was already like your imagination. I'd love a place where people could ski from their doors and go from work onto lot trails. It *would be lovely to see this transform into a book, by the way.

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Thanks so much Catherine, so pleased you enjoyed it! And gosh, wouldn't it be a dream to ski from work onto the trails! If only :) And thanks for the book encouragement too... I really hope I might find a way to make it something x

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Hey Anna, I’m always looking forward to your post - they’re so inspiring! I love how you take us on an exploration with your beautiful photography and gorgeous illustrations. The colours and your playful expression are so beautiful.

It is as magical as Norway is, and you have captured it. We visited there for a summer road trip a couple of years ago, and we were also told how lucky we were because it was so sunny and warm! Winter must be an incredible time to visit too, though.

Thanks for sharing 💛

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Hi Susan, This is such a lovely lovely lovely message to get, thank you! I never know when I share what people enjoy and so it's truly so lovely to know when you do. How wonderful to see Norway in the summer! I am actually luck enough to be going again this October, so I am really looking forward to seeing it in autumn. Thanks for your very lovely encouragement x

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So beautiful! It’s so exciting to see your observation pieces against these imaginative play ones. I think it’s the colours for me that make it feel even more ethereal! So so beautiful 🩵

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Thank you so much Orla! So pleased you enjoyed the comparison. They were very fun to make! I'm going to try to do more things with these colours :) x

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The colors, the shapes! Gorgeous paintings! I'm headed to Norway later this summer and this has got me excited all over again.

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Oh this is so lovey to read. Thank you so much Kelcey! And sending wishes for a fabulous trip to Norway! I already want to go back... maybe in the autumn :)

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Thank you, Anna! Happy to have found your Substack.

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This is all so gorgeous I saved this entire email to go back and look at it again.

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Thank you so much Kinga! That makes me so incredibly happy. I never know when I write these things whether they'll be inspiring/useful/interesting to people so it's incredibly nice to know you enjoyed it! Many thanks

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May 20Liked by Anna Wilson

I forever try to make sense of norwegian nature since moving here few years ago. It became such a theme in my work. And your drawings and observations are so relatable, almost familiar, in the looking at the subject. I hope it makes sense. And I hope you get to come here in the summer, especially on sunny weeks, then everyone will tell you how uncommon sun is here in Bergen. :)

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Viktorija! I love your work so it's a delight to have your comment here. And you live in such a glorious place! I also got told how rainy the summers are :) I'll have to come back. Thanks for the lovely comment and I'm pleased to hear it feels relatable to someone who knows the place well - it really is a striking landscape!

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Love this Anna! Your photos are always so stunning, so atmospheric. Makes me want to travel. Love your drawings and paintings too, so nice to see you take such a leap, really lovely.

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Maris! You are the loveliest. Many many thanks. I'm hoping the leap may take me somewhere a bit new... we shall see! xx

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Gosh the first and last paintings are stunning!🤩🤩🤩 I love all the others too as I do all your work😍 but these are totally magical! x

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Thanks so much Jess. They were so fun and I feel like I ‘discovered’ something for me. Xx

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