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 a single mirror to an entire hotel lobby
Shellman is the studio of Buster Eriksson and Mikael Hjärtsjö, two Swedish shell artists working with mussels, sea urchins, barnacles and the shells of the sea and beach. Since 2018 we have made one-of-a-kind shell mirrors, sculptures and lighting in the studio — and, increasingly, shell art installations built on site, at scale, for hotels, restaurants and public spaces around the world.
Three ways to work with Shellman
Studio works
Finished pieces, ready to hang: shell mirrors, wall art, sculptures and lamps made from natural sea shells and urchins. Every piece is unique — we never make the same one twice.
See what's available →Custom works
A mirror in your measurements, a colour that suits your wall, a piece built around the shells you brought home from a beach. We work in close dialogue with private clients, interior designers and decorators.
About custom works →On-site commissions at scale
For hotels, restaurants, developers, architects and art curators we design and build large shell art installations directly on site — anywhere in the world. We handle the sourcing of the shells, the technical planning and the build itself, leading a team we train locally, and we support the project from the first sketch to the finished wall.
Commissions →Featured projects
Fields of Mytilus: 45,000 mussel shells across 36 square metres of hotel lobby at Nammos Resort Amaala, completed in two weeks with a locally trained team. The Flow: 10,000 west-coast mussels flowing around eleven mirrors in Vasakronan's Platinan building in Gothenburg. Kåseholm: an on-site work for chef Daniel Berlin's estate in Skåne.
The material
Our shells are abundant or common, never rare. They come from local shores, from restaurants that would otherwise throw their oyster and mussel shells away, from aquafarming, and from suppliers who can document where they came from. Cleaned, sorted and placed by hand, one by one. 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.