Birds brass bowl
Hammered and chased brass
Åsa Maria Hermansson
2020
16 cm diameter x 3,5 cm high
1000 SEK
Category: Metal work
Jug – La jarrita
Jug – La jarrita
Turned and soldered brass and scrap wood
12,5 cm high
Åsa Maria Hermansson
2019
For sale – please contact me for more information
With this jug, a turning and soldering exercise during my last months of school at EAOSD School of Arts and Crafts, I wanted to create something that pleases my own eye and also challenge the design ideals of my teachers and create something that expressed my Swedishness among Colombian silversmiths. I chose to use the not very noble brass and scrap wood as materials and gave them a simple finish that will grow old with style. My hope is that this highlights the simplicity of the design, for which I found inspiration among the Bauhaus masters. I truly hope that it pleases your eyes too.
Face – Vase
Face – Vase
Hammered copper sheet
9 cm at its biggest diameter x 11 cm high
Åsa Maria Hermansson
2019
2000 SEK
Circus Over the Rainbow – Music Box
Music box in copper and brass with silver soldering
12 cm diameter x 10 cm high
Åsa Maria Hermansson
2019
Already SOLD but another music box in glass will be up soon
Woman with bird
Woman with bird – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith
Woman with bird – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith
Woman with bird – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith
Woman with bird – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith
Woman with bird – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith
Woman with bird
Casted bronze with patina
16 cm high
Åsa Maria Hermansson
2019
SOLD
Åsa Maria Hermansson – Sketch
Bronze Casting
Bronze casting – Photo credit: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith
Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith
Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metalsmith – Photo credit: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Cat asleep
Cat asleep
Hammered copper with patina
18 cm max diameter 18 cm x 7 cm high
Åsa Maria Hermansson
2019
(SOLD)
In a time of huge unrest, I wanted to explore if a hard metal object could fill an observer with tenderness and inspire to peace. The utmost and longterm, although perhaps pretentious and unachievable, goal is to learn to craft pieces that can soften the shielded hearts of the power holders in the violent country that I live in. It is something that I will have to continue working on.
Being a Woman
Woman – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metal smith
Woman – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metal smith
Woman – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metal smith
Woman – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metal Smith
Being a Woman
Hammered copper
14 cm at its biggest diameter x 17 cm high
Åsa Maria Hermansson
2019
4000 SEK
Small sculpture hammered from a 0.90 mm copper sheet with the help of only hammers and stakes. Watch a part of the process in the video below:
Woman – Åsa Maria Hermansson – Metal smith
Bird – reinventing ancestral techniques
The second attempt to make pieces rarely made in the technique obra plana, the creation of a piece of art from a metal sheet using only hammer and anvil, resulted in this bird and my teacher shaking his head saying something like “I don’t know what to think of you, I’m half satisfied and half… just stupefied”. I’m still not sure if he meant it as a good thing. Anyways, it was possible to make a bird, and I hope that you like it.
Bird / Ave
Hammer and anvil / Obra plana
Bronze / Bronce
ca 33 x 16 cm
Åsa Maria Hermansson
900 SEK / 300.000 COL
Gaia the World Turtle
Gaia is a secret bowl for small things, the carrier of a world map and as a turtle the symbol of collected wisdom. Hammered in brass using chasing and repoussé techniques and finished with a soft greenish copper patina and a coffee coloured iron patina. She’s the only one of her kind, completely handmade and unique. Idea, design and production: Åsa Maria Hermansson.
Gaia – The World Turtle
Brass / Bronce
Chasing and repoussé / Cincelado
Copper and Iron patina / Pátinas de óxido de cobre e hierro
20 x 16 cm
Åsa Maria Hermansson
1600 SEK / $ 550.000 COL
SOLD!
A word from the buyer:
“Den fina sköldpaddan har hittat sin plats i vårt hus och vi kallar den för ‘önskepaddan’. Man skriver ner det man önskar eller funderar över på en lapp och lägger i skålen under skalet på kvällen så ordnar sköldpaddan så allt är bra på morgonen när man vaknar. Det funkar varje gång. Både jag och min dotter förstod direkt när vi såg den att den var magisk… Min dotter säger att eftersom sköldpaddan bär hela världskartan på sin sköld har den också bra lösningar på varje problem. Den har rest över hela världen och är väldigt klok. Man kan lita på den. Och den reste hela vägen från Colombia för att komma just till oss och bo i vårt hem”.
Engraved Whale in Silver-Plated Copper and Ebony
Engraved humpback whale
Silver-plated copper and African ebony
Åsa Maria Hermansson
Lily of the Valley – Cake Cutlery
Handmade cake cutter and knife, inspired by Art Nouveau cutlery and decorated with my favourite flower ‘muguet’, ‘liljekonvalj’ or Lily of the Valley. With its discrete enchanting scent, it’s a reliable sign of spring in the Northern hemisphere, and in France a symbol of the workers’ struggle and the celebration on the 1st of May.
‘Lily of the Valley’ Cake Cutter and Knife
Silver-plated brass
23 cm
Åsa Maria Hermansson
Emperor Penguins Puzzle
Decorative metal puzzle portraying an emperor penguin family standing close together in the Antarctic spring. A handmade and unique piece of metal art that won’t be repeated in more copies. Made in brass with three different patinas to create the different colours, attached to a lamina of 6mm wood painted with acrylics.
Emperor Penguin Family Puzzle
Brass and wood
8 x 12 cm
Åsa Maria Hermansson
Contact me for more puzzle designs
Handmade bowl with A Bird’s Flight
Handmade hammered bowl with the sequence of a birds flight in fourteen steps.
Brass Bowl with a Bird’s Flight
Brass
Åsa Maria Hermansson
‘Campechana’ basket with birds
The ancestral technique of creating a basket or bowl from a plain sheet of metal, without any soldering, only by a special order of sawed lines, is well-known in Colombia and called “campechana”.
Campechana / Basket with Birds
Brass
20 cm ext. diameter
Åsa Maria Hermansson
Handmade Metal World Map
Handmade world map in two layers of metal. Front sheet of brass with the continents sawed out by hand and a copper sheet behind it, held steady in a frame of cedar wood. Can either hang on the wall or stand on a table. Don’t hesitate to get in contact for a map or other piece of metal art, perhaps based on a portrait or your favourite photograph.
World map
Copper, Brass, Cedar wood
42 x 30 cm
Åsa Maria Hermansson
String Musicians Trivet
Four different string musicians, sawed by hand in a sheet of brass and the piece is attached upon a thin wooden frame with a non-chrystalizing glue. My first metal smithing project at art and crafts school Escuela de Artes y Officious Santo Domingo in Bogotá.
String Musicians Trivet
Brass and wood
16×16 cm
Åsa Maria Hermansson
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