Claes Kamp

My main focus is to create. May it be traditional art in the form of paintings and sculptures or something else, an illustration, a photo project or a mural painting. The main driving force is an urge to make things come to life and explore creativity. 

I sell existing pieces and take on commissions. See pricing and portfolio for more info or send an email with your idea. 

I have an education within art, industrial design and a Journeyman’s certificate in traditional wood crafts (sloyd). I have worked both freelance and as an employee as a graphic designer / illustrator, letterpress print maker, woodcraftsman, musician, axe maker - You name it.  

Photography was my passion on the side of all this for about 20 years before the inquires of hiring me as a photographer for different projects became so common that I started taking it on as a part of my business. 

If you have an idea, I can offer you a mindset to figure it out. And if I don’t know the craft or skills needed I am the kind of person that will spend as much time as I have to, to learn it. Creative challenges is my absolute favourite thing. 

Art:

Art: Individually set prices for existing pieces. 

Art Commissions: Send an email ( claeskamp@gmail.com ) and we can talk it through.

Photography:

One day photography session: 5000 SEK including tax. (plus travel costs if its further than 1 hour drive away). This includes post production and you get hi-res Jpeg images sent to you. 

Larger Photo projects: Send an email to claeskamp@gmail.com

Hi resolution files of my pictures (including commercial rights): 500 SEK including tax, per picture.

Illustration:

Digital image: 4000 SEK including tax. (digital album art, illustration for website etc.) I send one picture and do one round of feedback and editing if needed. Any additional rounds of feedback/editing: 1000 SEK including tax per round. You get a hi resolution Jpeg file of one illustration.

Print illustration: 5000 SEK including tax. (t-shirts, physical album art etc.) I send one picture and do one round of feedback and editing if needed. Any additional rounds of feedback/editing: 1000 SEK including tax per round. You get a hi resolution Jpeg file and one file (sometimes set of files) that can be sent to print. 

Logo: 5000 SEK including tax. I send one picture and do one round of feedback and editing if needed. Any additional rounds of feedback/editing: 1000 SEK including tax per round. You get all the necessary files that could be needed for digital and print.  

Other ideas!? Send an email to claeskamp@gmail.com 

I grew up in a family where art in all forms always played a central role.

As a kid I used to have “painting fridays” with my dad. He got a beer and I got something with a lot of sugar, we listened to rock n’ roll and painted all night. Never with any demands of certain results or progress, but for the fun of it. That’s where I found art.

A few years later, as a loud mouthed punk teen, with absolutely no grades to speak of I had the luck of having a few explosively passionate teachers who, with their own hands got me in to the fine arts program where I never found my medium but very much the way I wanted to make things. A huge turning point in my life. I would still skip math and anything else that didn’t interest me but spent the time in the arts department instead.

I later studied 3 years of industrial design focused on wood technology where I found out that I never want to be part of mass consumption but that I love to work with wood. That lead me down the line to woodcrafts and I got in to the “Träslöjd- och Smide” (Woodcrafts and Blacksmithing) program at Västerbergs Folkhögskola where I studied traditional woodcrafts and ended up with being the second person in Sweden examined with a Journeyman’s Letter in woodcrafts.

Two years later, in the late summer of 2020 I started up what I called Claws Creations and went full time with my dream of making wooden art and bespoke furniture. In 2022 I changed pseudonym to ClaesKamp

Nowadays the loud mouth and the crazy hair is gone, but the punk heart is still there and I try to put that heart into every single piece I make.

-Claes