Today’s guest, featuring artwork they dream of owning is, Tonje Brattås.

Tonje Brattås is a startup builder, creative thinker, and problem solver, driven by the intersection of business, technology, and storytelling. Over the past decade, she has co-founded multiple companies, always seeking new opportunities to make a change.

Currently, Tonje is building SomebodyMakeIt, a solution that redefines how custom products and one-of-a-kind creations come to life. Bridging the gap between ideas, makers, and buyers, it ensures that only the most wanted products get made. Connecting demand with production in a smarter, more sustainable way.

With a background spanning tech, education, and film, Tonje thrives on challenging norms, exploring new creative frontiers, and pushing industries forward. As a mother, entrepreneur, and lifelong creator, she is passionate about shaping the future of local production—where craftsmanship, sustainability, and digital innovation meet.

Outside of work, Tonje finds inspiration in natural shapes, hidden design opportunities, and the thrill of learning new skills. She believes that creativity should be a thriving profession, not just a passion—a belief that fuels her mission to build new pathways for artists and makers to succeed.

A Reflection on Motherhood

Nina Grieg: Knot, 2019

"This piece makes me think of motherhood—how it completely reshaped my world and the deep, unspoken connection between a parent and child. It reminds me of how my child and I sleep, wrapped around each other, completely intertwined, like an unbreakable bond beyond words."—Tonje Brattås

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• Size: 23 × 17 × 20 cm
• Price: 11 550 kr / 1 002 €

Chaos into Creation

Carl Martin Hansen: Dance little sister, 2018

"This perfectly captures how my creative process begins—a thousand scattered pieces that need to come together, forming something meaningful, even if it only makes sense to me at first. It also reminds me of my latest wild craft experiment—digging up clay from my own garden to make ceramics. I’m drawn to natural elements, raw materials, and the challenge of shaping something real from the chaos."—Tonje Brattås

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• Size: 35 × 85 × 35 cm
• Price: 210 000 kr / 18 216 €

The Mind of a Female Founder

Vladimir Longauer: UNIVERSUS She, 2016

"This is exactly how I feel waking up in the morning—my mind racing with a thousand ideas, tasks, and projects I know I won’t have time to finish (If somebody could make a solution to make the days longer, I'd be the first customer!). The energy, the chaos, the determination—it all resonates."—Tonje Brattås

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• Size: 37 × 46 cm
• Price: 4 725 kr / 410 €

Tonje also loves these pieces:

• Petter Buhagen: Bureaucrats of Experience (Pinch)
• Jenny Hviding Visuals: Rituals
• Maka Nilsen: Tilbakekallelse (3)
• Bjørn Bjarre: Gaia
• Anne Siv Falkenberg Pedersen: "Sliver"
• Monica Flakk: «On Powdered Ground»#4
• Jingxin Geng: Fire
• Gilles & Cecilie Studio: Nomad Jars

I'd love to see Adrian Brun among Atelie's artists!—Tonje Brattås

Thanks again to Tonje Brattås—and if you'd like to learn more about all the great work she is doing, please check out SomebodyMakeIt.

Also, congratulations on her acting success in the film Oculi (see header image) —at the moment of posting this, the film is rated 7.9/10 stars on IMDB so check it out!