Bornholm Calendar 2025

The Colours of Bornholm – Art Calendar 2025

What better way to bring back the memories of magical Bornholm than with an Art Calendar which month by month presents beautiful images that transport you back there.

With a stunning front cover that presents the PhotoArt concept of Mandy Stacey’s “Colour Blocs” where 4 Bornholm images are brought together to represent one colour, and then those 16 different colours make up a square design. So that Dark Blue sits next to White and Orange, and Dark Pink complements Black, and opposites Red and Light Green zing off each other. Truly colours you want to dive into! And that’s before you study the detail…

Each little image is a mini work-of-art, the subject matter artistically observed and cropped and according to Mandy Stacey’s PhotoArt process of “redefining colour” where she deconstructs landscapes into Colour Samples - a slice of real life in all its 3D glory being so much better at representing that colour than a man-made colour chart.

And so, for every month there is a colour, with each of those 4 pictures made at that time of year, drawing on the PhotoArt Series “The Colours of Bornholm in all 4 Seasons”. (Described below, with image descriptions from top left, clockwise)

Januar: Dark Blue: Gudhjem Mølle; Gudhjem Harbour rocks; Gudhjem Norresan Smokery; Rønne Bay late night sky

Februar: Black: Nylars Church; Sose Odde, Baltic Sea; Svanen sculpture, Svaneke; Balka Beach

Marts: Yellow: Gudhjem traditional yellow house; Hammeren rocks and friendly sheep; Rønne Bay sunset; Rønne bicycle

April: Light Green: Hammershus Castle Ruin; Hammeren beech wood; Stavehøl Waterfall, Barley field, Nylars

Maj: White: On the ferry to Rønne; Hammer Odde Lighthouse; Balka Beach; Nyker Church

Juni: Turquoise: Baltic Sea Glass; Cornflower field, Østermarie; Fishing rope, Hellipeder

Juli: Dark Green: Traditional painted door, Svaneke; Beech wood, Paradise Hills; Opal Lake; Hammeren cliff walk

August: Mid Blue: Nyker Church; Vang Harbour; Dune grass, Balka Beach; Rønne Marina

September: Red: Virginia Creeper, Gudhjem yellow house; Svaneke Church; Nyker Church; Boat house, Allinge

Oktober: Grey: Snogebæk Smokery; Sommerodde Beach; Østerlars Church; Randkløve granite cliffs

November: Orange: Nexø Church; Sømarken sunset; Gudhjem terracotta roofs; Rønne lamplight

December: Purple: Traditional half-timbered house, Rønne; Sunrise, Sandvig beach; Christmas wreath, Gudhjem; Glass bauble, Gudhjem

Product Details: A4 sized (W21 cm x H29.7 cm) wall hanging calendar for 2025 – with a 1 page per month layout; durable spiral binding; clean and modern calendar format (in Danish language for days of the week and months) easily written on in ballpoint pen.

Also available: “COLOUR BLOCS” Glass Tiles which can be mixed and matched to make different colour combinations to suit your preferred colour schemes.

FACTFILE:

• The 2025 Art Calendar is based on Mandy Stacey’s Colours of Bornholm “COLOUR BLOCS” which are also produced as Glass Tiles and displayed in the x16 format in her Gallery “THE HOUSE OF MANY COLOURS” in Allinge.
• The individual images are chosen from Mandy Stacey’s PhotoArt Series “The Colours of Bornholm: In All Four Seasons” which is on display in her Gallery “THE HOUSE OF MANY COLOURS” in Allinge.
• They are taken from the Colour Palettes for each season, part of the 12-part Series, where the famous Bornholm artist Oluf Høst (1884-1966) plays an inspirational role in the artworks, with their parallel colour palettes for each season.
• This is what she has to say about the original exhibition artwork:

“I fell in love with Bornholm in the summer of 2022. It was easy. The vibrant colours, the breath-taking beauty of the nature, the ageless charm of the place. And then I discovered the famous artist Oluf Høst’s paintings of Bornholm, capturing the same scenes in the same bright colours, and it inspired me to create a PhotoArt series celebrating the colours of Bornholm in all four seasons.”

• Her interest in Oluf Høst was rewarded with an exhibition in The Oluf Høst Museum in 2023 using her PhotoArt to tell the fascinating story of the artist’s son Ole W. Høst who tragically died in WW2.
• Mandy Stacey is an English artist now living in Sandvig with her Danish husband and business partner Curt Stavis. As well as creating her PhotoArt, they both have a company Bornholm365 to develop business and tourism on the island all year round.