Fog lifting off the mountains across a dark fjord

TÁLKNAFJÖRÐUR · WESTFJORDS · ICELAND

Making things that make us happy. And sharing them with you.

“We had been searching for this place for years, and then it found us. Perhaps it will find you too.”— ELLI

Elli and Rachel — two ocean people living, making and writing at the edge of the Westfjords.

FROM THE CABIN

Art, sea, weather and the things we make.

Yfir hafið dreymir mig.

— DAVÍÐ STEFÁNSSON

ACROSS THE SEA, I DREAM

Seafaring pastels: a long illustrated page of the Seafaring story, with crayon drawings of a woman in a hat on a boat and of blue flowers, the story text, and photographs of kayaking, a sea stack, buttercups and a kayaker in a yellow drysuit

Seafaring pastels

Snow-covered mountains lit pink at sunrise across a calm fjord

First light on the far side of the fjord.

The work speaks for itself. The rest is weather, luck, and a lifetime spent paying attention.

— ON ELLI

Rachel sitting by a driftwood fire on a stony beach beside a kayak

Driftwood fire at the end of a day on the water.

Magenta wild thyme flowering through golden moss

Wild thyme pushing up through the moss.

Handicam footage of a surfer riding a grey wave in the rain

Fjord Fever Diary, no. 1. Shot on handicam.

Only three retreats a year. Exclusive, and custom made.

— THE RETREAT

MAY · AUGUST · OCTOBER

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A tarp shelter seen through wild daisies

Camp, through the daisies.

A felted wool piece laid out on a frozen pond

Laid out on the ice to see it against the land.

Surfboard fins hanging from the cabin ceiling above a snowy beach

Fins, waiting for swell.

Elli in a kayak holding up a freshly caught fish

Dinner, sorted.

Buttercups and tall grass in front of a misty fjord

August.

Elli beside a red Land Cruiser loaded with surfboards, surrounded by gathered fishing buoys

A good day’s haul of buoys.

For now, there are things to make, waves to be ridden, people to love, and a book that may yet get written.

— ON RACHEL

A mountain blurred behind a rain-spattered window, black and white

Weather day. Watching from the window.

Elli and Rachel pitching a tarp held up by crossed kayak paddles

Pitching camp with the paddles.

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