Lalla Hvalstad

[1] After painting portraits, interiors and landscapes, in 1922 she changed her focus to ceramics, studying in Faenza, Italy.

On returning to Norway, she opened her own workshop in Bestum where together with Lili Scheel [no] she created a wide variety of pottery, frequently decorated with flowers and fruits.

She befriended in particular her fellow art students Alice Pihl, Johanna Bugge Berge and Kris Laache.

For a time, she continued painting portraits, interiors and landscapes but after her parents died in 1922, she decided to make a change.

They produced a wide variety of tableware as well as tiles and smaller works, often decorated with flowers, fruits or figures inspired by European pottery from the 18th century but frequently incorporating designs from Norwegian rose painting.