When: Saturday to Wednesday, 22 August–2 September, 1:00–5:00 PM

Where: ART56°, Æ Gammel Havn 9, Hvide Sande

What: Open studio with fine art photography by Betina Hastoft. Free entry.

Organiser: ART56° artist residence

Betina Hastoft is a fine art photographer whose work explores the big themes: the universe, the sky, life, love and dreams. Her way in is quietly radical: a shell picked up on the beach at the North Sea.

For years, Betina collected shells on her annual visits to Hvide Sande and, like so many of us, eventually tucked them away and forgot about them. Then she started looking at them through her camera. What she found was a hidden world of beauty and character in every single shell – and the series HAVET was born. A tribute to the natural creations of the sea, and a reminder that everything is larger than ourselves.

Every work in the series is unique – one motif, one piece, no editions. And the original shell travels with the work when it finds a new home. Come and see what the sea has been hiding.