Books
Studio Notes
Paintings and writings 2019–2026
2026, Förlaget Kalkbrott, 192 pages, ISBN 978-91-88947-12-3
Around a hundred paintings from seven years, alongside notes from the sketchbooks that always lie open in the studio. The writing is as much about practical matters as about what is hard to explain: priming, weather, mistakes and the days when a painting suddenly holds together. Printed on matt paper that stays close to the chalky surface of the paintings.
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The Light We Carried
A novel
2025, Tångvall förlag, 312 pages, ISBN 978-91-89231-04-7
Three siblings return to an island off the Bohuslän coast to clear out the house their mother, a painter, has left behind. Among canvases, letters and unfinished sketches they find that their memories of her do not fit together. A quiet novel about siblings, inheritance and how differently people can remember the same person.
The Silence of Colour
Essays on painting
2023, Bokförlaget Nordfönster, 168 pages, ISBN 978-91-87612-35-0
Twelve essays on the practical work at the easel: mixing greys, waiting out a painting that won't come right, scraping off a week's work. She also writes about painters she has learnt from, among them Helene Schjerfbeck and Giorgio Morandi. A book for people who paint and for anyone curious about how it is done.
Winter Garden
Poems
2021, Ängsull förlag, 84 pages, ISBN 978-91-86845-21-6
Pia Siskodotter's debut as a writer: poems from a winter when the studio was too cold to work in and the daily walk through the allotments became the work instead. Short poems about rose hips, frost and birds, and about looking at the same thing every day until it starts to look different.
