Signe Torp Illustrator

Udyret i tunnelen

Barna i fabrikkbyen

Writer Kari Saanum and I are very proud to finally be able to present our book baby! The book is nominated for Brageprisen 2024 in the non fiction for children category and five of the illustrations were finalists for the Bologna Children’s book fair illustrators exhibition 2022. First 1000 copies include an almost two meter long print of Sagveien in 1890, the setting for the story. Can be bought here

Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award 2024

Harriet Backer

Picture book about Norwegian painter Harriet Backer published by the National museum and Kode Bergen 2023, in connection with a big exhibition of her work. Available at shop.nasjonalmuseet.no

Sagene poster map

50 cm x 70 cm poster made in collaboration with Sagene bokhandel, available in their wonderful shop (pictured mid left:).

The Sagene poster map is for sale at the Sagene bookshop in Oslo for 300,-

BonDep advent calendar 2023

Was commissioned by BonDep to make the artwork for this. Childhood dream come true! Full of little drawers with Kknekki hairbands, and artwork printed inside! Available at bondep.com

Sagenejul 2023

Sagenejul 2023

Posters

Bluescape

Dream street

Bookshop card

Card designed and drawn for Sagene bookshop in Oslo.

Make Yourself at Home

Published by Thames & Hudson 2020. Also available in Catalan, complex Chinese, simplified Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Romanian and Spanish.

The making of Make Yourself at Home video

Make Yourself at Home: A global tour of the world's most unusual houses

Sagenejul

Goldings pub Kings Lynn

Sagene bookshop

Logo Sagene Bookshop

I really enjoyed this job of designing a new logo for wonderful Sagene Bookshop in Oslo.

This is the biggest of their new plastic bags,

and these are stickers, photographed together with some of the pens that drew them.

House and place portraits

I love drawing houses. I do commissioned house portraits whenever I have time. Some are of peoples homes to be put on the wall or given as a gift, others are made for shops or restaurants, to become calendars, cards anything. Here is a selection of work from the last couple of years. If you are interested in having one made for you get in touch for price list and details. Although I prefer drawing from life drawing from photos is also an option if you live far away.

Soria Moria, Torshov

Torshov

Vogts gate, Torshov

Graahs, Sagene

Hønse Lovisa, Sagene

Sagene samfunnshus

Bjølsen skole

Vøyenvolden, Sagene

Sagene kirke

Pannekakehuset, Bærums Verk

Bygdøyhuset

Bærums Verk, blåtimen

Verksgata, Bærums Verk

Nittedal

Baker Hansen, Bærums Verk

Værtshuset, Bærums Verk

Fru Amundsens, Bærums Verk

Sagablott, Sagene

Bærums Verk

Værtshuset, Bærums Verk

The Babushkha Book

This project was developed during my Ma at Cambridge School of Art. It follows women in my family nine generations back, from me to my mother to my grandmother and her mother etc. All women have a double spread with a portrait, a short biography and some laws specific to women during their era. It is about time, history and the changing conditions of women’s lives. It is published in Norway in January 2019 by Omnipax.

Painting of my mother’s mother.

Risograph experiment.

My mothers mothers mothers mother.

My mothers mothers mothers mothers mothers mother!

The finished spread with my mother’s mother, or my grandmother if you like.

My mothers mothers mother.

Front and back cover

Endpapers!

One of many early painting experiments.

Early sketches of three of the women drawn with a brushpen.

Drawings of the portraits that triggered the whole idea.

The Salvation Army

This is for a Salvation Army project where inmates in prison get the opportunity of family therapy before they are released back into the world. This can hopefully help them leave what got them into prison behind and enjoy a new start. It will be used on information material and presentations of the project.

Book covers

This is a cover I drew, designed and hand lettered for the YA novel ‘Tordivel’ by the wonderful Pia Tveterås. It is published in Norwegian by Omnipax November 2018.

The cover for this book published by Thames & Hudson in 2020 was drawn and hand lettered by me and designed by Barbara Ward

This is the cover for my picture book ‘Babusjka-boka’, published in Norway by Omnipax January 2019.

I made this one simply because I really like the author!

And this one because I like the strange look of brains.

This cover is for my Master project ‘Words’.

For this one the back side is really important too!

Masters project 'Words'

This was my final project on the Master in Cambridge. I wanted to investigate human communication, but it proved difficult to illustrate, or communicate, all the different ideas I had! It is such a vast theme, but so interesting I will probably have another go at it again when I’m a bit older and wiser.

Sometimes there are no words.

Or the ones you find are not the ones you need.

And when you find the right one there’s nobody there to listen…

Sketchbooks

My sketchbook is my best friend. I take it almost everywhere, and am very attached to it. The world is so full of interesting things to draw!

Some old and beautiful cottages in Cambridge.

The tree houses that makes wonderful Goldings restaurant and pub in King’s Lynn.

Rooftops in London. I love all the bricks of English houses!

I love observing and drawing people in public spaces, but it feels like a bit of a guilty pleasure.

Mill Road, Cambridge.

Bricks in Oslo.

Cooking friend.

Cambridge house.

Cambridge street.

My favourite house in Cambridge.

People having a pint in Torshov, Oslo.

Beautiful old houses, Rodeløkka, Oslo.

Man on beach.

In the winter it’s too cold to draw outside, so this is the view from my living room window.

And this is the view from my kitchen.

Sometimes it is fun to draw while doing something else. Here I was dancing and drawing without looking, it is like a childish game, but a surprisingly fun one. Even if the result is rather terrible.

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