← WorkCase study 02

The National Gallery of Iceland

Reykjavík, Iceland—2025—Silk twill

The place

Listasafn Íslands, on the edge of Tjörnin, Reykjavík’s central pond.

Fiol works from both the collection and the gallery’s mark — artworks expressed in silk, a signature drawn from the building.

01Finnur Jonsson

The Finnur Jónsson silk scarf for Listasafn Íslands — an expressionist landscape translated onto silk, draped to show the gallery’s navy-and-orange border

The Finnur Jónsson scarf folded to show the dark landscape detail and "Listasafn Íslands" label

Corner detail of the Finnur Jónsson scarf — pale, watercolour-like passages and the gallery’s navy-and-orange border with its three-arch motif

Finnur Jónsson (1892–1993).

Fiol took the reflection of those arches in Tjörnin as its starting point — the logo layered with stripes, as if shaped by ripples. Two colourways from the landscape: volcanic black and moss green, and the shifting light of northern skies.

02Signature abstract

The Signature Abstract silk scarf for Listasafn Íslands — circles and diagonal stripes on black, with a cobalt blue edge

The Signature Abstract scarf folded flat — circular and stripe composition with "Listasafn Íslands" label on the cobalt border

Corner detail of the Signature Abstract scarf — diagonal stripe pattern meeting the cobalt blue hand-rolled edge

The Signature Abstract silk tie in black — diagonal stripe texture, hand-finished

The Signature Abstract silk tie in navy — diagonal stripes, the companion to the black tie

The Signature Abstract takes that reflection and abstracts it further: the arches become circles, the ripples become diagonal stripes across dark silk. A cobalt edge echoes the water. The same mark, read differently.

Heavy silk twill (scarf); fine-weave silk (tie). Each hand-finished.

03Signature lines

The Signature Lines silk scarf for Listasafn Íslands — the gallery’s logo redrawn as looping chartreuse forms on black

Corner detail of the Signature Lines scarf — chartreuse ribbon forms and the "Listasafn Íslands" label on the rolled edge

The Signature Lines scarf folded flat — interlocking chartreuse loops layered across black silk

The Signature Lines scarf as a product cut-out — the gallery’s logo redrawn as interlocking looping forms on silk, shown flat against a transparent ground

In this version of the signature, the logo is taken apart and redrawn as a continuous line — the three arches looped into one another, repeating across the silk in chartreuse on black.

04Guðmunda Andrésdóttir

The Guðmunda Andrésdóttir silk scarf for Listasafn Íslands — a deep red field with a gold and blue border, cut out on a transparent ground

The Guðmunda Andrésdóttir scarf laid out to show the full design — deep red silk with a gold border and the Listasafn Íslands label

Corner detail of the Guðmunda Andrésdóttir scarf — the red field meeting the gold border, with a blue accent and the hand-rolled edge

Guðmunda Andrésdóttir (1922–2002) — paintings built from pure colour, geometric forms that carry warmth and light.

Those forms come to the silk: a field of deep red, a border in the gold and blue of her canvases. The gallery’s mark runs along the hem, placing the piece in the collection where her work hangs.