Shellman — Natural Art from Sea and Beach
Shellman creates natural art from sea and beach materials — handcrafted wall art, mirrors, sculptures, and lighting made from natural sea shells and sea urchins. We also sell sea shell glue and DIY kits for shell art and shell mirror crafting, and create custom on-site commissions for hotels, restaurants, and other businesses.
Shell art, from single mirrors to entire feature walls
Shellman is the shell art studio of Buster Eriksson and Mikael Hjärtsjö, two Swedish artists working with mussel and oyster shells, sea urchins, barnacles and shells from sea and beach. Since 2018 we have made one-of-a-kind shell mirrors, sculptures and lighting in our studio — and are now increasingly sought after and invited to do large-scale shell art installations on-site, for hotels, restaurants and public spaces around the world.
Three ways to work with and order shell art from Shellman
Studio works
Finished pieces, straight from the studio and ready to hang: shell mirrors, wall art, sculptures and lamps made from natural sea shells and other beautiful items from sea and beach. Every piece is one-of-a-kind — just like every single shell is unique. We can’t make twins, but we do siblings.
See what's available →Custom works
Shell mirrors made to measure for any room in your home – round, oval, rectangular or organic – in a fitting shape, size and color nuance. Or a custom piece built around your own sea shells collected over time on vacations to faraway beaches.
About custom works →Large-scale shell art built on-site
For feature walls in hotels, restaurants and public spaces we design and build bespoke, site-specific shell art installations directly on-site, anywhere in the world. Concept and design, sourcing the shells, technical planning, logistics and timeline are run by Shellman – with a team we train and lead when the scale demands it.
See the projects →Featured projects
We make shell art at any scale. These three projects show the range: 45,000 shells across a resort lobby wall by the Red Sea, a mussel-clad column and shell mirrors for a Michelin chef's kitchen in Skåne, and a feature wall for an office building in Gothenburg.
The material
Our shells are always abundant or common. We source them from our local shores, from restaurants that would otherwise discard their oyster and mussel shells, from aquafarming, and from suppliers who can document where they came from. Cleaned, sorted and placed by hand, one by one. All this done following our mantra: Good enough is not enough — final finish is everything.
As seen in
Residence · DI Weekend · Gods & Gårdar · Antik & Auktion · Helsingborgs Dagblad · SVT Husdrömmar
Get in touch
For commissions, custom work or just a question: contact us.