Farewell – Welcome

We say farewell to Bodil and Rita and Anette and family. Thank you for staying with us and we hope to see you soon again. We welcome Sigrún, Veronique and Joan who is with us again this year. We hope they all have a good and creative stay at Gullkistan.

Inspired by Laugarvatn

Kendra Bulgrin and Jimmy Eddings from Kansas, USA, are now working in the studio at Eyvindartunga. We also have three writers:  Hlín Agnarsdóttir from Iceland and Kathleen Lee and Miriam Sagan from New York, USA. Rósa Helgadóttir, textile designer from Iceland, is...

Litlaá, Sandá and Djúpá

We are now welcoming the first guests to the Eyvindartunga farmhouse. There are three rooms upstairs available and some vacancies this summer. We call the rooms Litlaá, Sandá and Djúpá, these are names of the rivers surrounding the farm.

15 years of Gullkistan

On june 17th 1995 the Gullkistan art festival was opened in Laugarvatn. More than 130 artists of different fields took part all over the village. The second festival was opened on june 17th in 2005 with even more participants. Art everywhere and other activities...