2025

Exhebition Fuut Fuut Udstillingssted 
The Beauty of Everyday Life
My works are inspired by what surrounds me – the small moments where everyday life reveals its hidden patterns and its beauty. Here, the ordinary becomes divine, and the divine is found in the everyday.

Bell Pulls
When I sew bell pulls, I connect with my foremothers. My mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother – their hands have sewn cushions, chairs, and bed linen, leaving traces of wisdom, patience, and love in every stitch. I may not know all the techniques, but through sewing I feel the connection to them and honor their craft.

Group Exhibition, Vitinn, Akranes, Iceland 
I am water; I see life through water, the eyes that are in the water, from the day I entered this world. Water on Earth has traveled through all of life's history on this planet, many times. It never becomes new water; it is always the same water flowing through me, you, them, the flowers, the grass, the earth, the animals. Water holds wisdom from everything that lives, wisdom born of patience, persistence, and the understanding that all things are interconnected.
 
Every year, I swim outdoors in nature, connected to the water, part of it, listening and filling myself with it. Water has flowed through our ancestors, and thus our bodies are linked by memories, from generation to generation.
 
Just as water shapes and sustains, so too does the craft of sewing—binding, repairing, and creating—serve as a way to hold things together, to preserve stories, and to honor tradition. I sew my connection to my foremothers. Mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother sewed clock chains, pillows, chairs, bedding, and everything needed.
They cared for their craftsmanship, took their time, and their work were  masterpieces. Their sewing was more than just creating; it was a way of passing down wisdom, patience, and love, much like water’s silent, enduring flow.
 
I sew water, drops, and animals in water to connect with them and the water that unites us all. Through sewing, I learn that just as water can adapt and find its way, so too must we be flexible, patient, and faithful to the craft. I may not know the craft of sewing technically, but I feel the emotion behind it—an act of honoring my foremothers, of listening to the water within me, and of recognizing that, like water, our stories and wisdom flow through us, shaping the future in subtle but profound ways.

2023

I see the form and I see beyond the form.
The spirit behind every grass, every flower and every tree

Solo Exhibition Fuut Fuut Udstillingssted, Hvalsø Danmark

Group exhibition Copenhagen 

From my garden

​The water bodies

2020 -2022

footprints in my heart

twilight   rökkur   tusmørke
Rökkur, Tusmørke, Twilight Steinunn has lived in Denmark for almost 30 years. All these years, she has gone "home" to Iceland, several times a year. Steinunn is very connected to her old country, especially to nature. In this series Rökkur, Tusmørke, Twilight, she works from breathtaking moments, which are connected to nature: the time when sky and sea meet as one. Where everything is blue, and behind, there are shadows and light, in shades of blue. The Twilight time. Steinunn takes these moments into everyday life and fantasy. Steinunn also says that life has its Twilight, where we pass from one phase to another. The moment where everything is still for an instant. As we move from one time to another. Where all is one.
These pictures are painted in oil

Samtal/ Þriggja kvenna listavefur/ Group Exhebition, Reykjaik Iceland
Spirit thread The inspiration for these works is connected to the history of Steinunn . In many Icelandic families, it was a tradition for women to embroider pictures, and sew these into cushions, on chairs and other things that adorned their homes. At the beginning of Steinunn's career, her work was based on the patterns that were connected to both Icelandic history and the history of Steinunn's own family Over many years, these works developed in the direction that can now be seen, in this exhibition. Today, Steinunn is also inspired by her daily life in and around her home. Daily life and the connection to what is closer in time and space. The birds, the flowers, the kitties, and the dog. Steinunn sees it as thread of life, its connection to life and to all beings. 

Summer Exhebition Jónshús Copenhagen Denmark

Summer Exhibition Huset Asnæs, Denmark.

The many faces of our Earth Mother                                           Working  together with birds

You are my golden beings
I find peace in your love

Witches are able to connect with all forms of life on a deeper level than those who are not witches
Real witches come in many forms and can offer many different things to those around them.

New Work

Octopuses are shape shifters and have three hearts!
They are fascinating beings.

I grew up in a small town in Iceland named Vík. There are a lot of ravens in and around the town. I have great respect for ravens 😊 When I was a child I remember crossing a field and saw that there were many ravens gathered in a flock, which in Iceland we call a “raven parliament.” Seeing this, I stood in front of them and took a big bow! I was both a little scared of them, but as I said I also had great respect for them. Ravens are  wise birds!

In the last couple of years I have started to see and hear ravens in Lejre, Denmark, where I now live, and I am really happy to have them around!

If you hear them, call them, with the same kind of sound they have and I can promise they will respond! The conversation between you and the raven can last for a long time.

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2019

Older works

2018

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