About the house

One master brand.
Four distinct expressions.

How Very Ladylike is the master brand: a many-sided creative house shaped by Nordic heritage, the Pacific Northwest, and an enduring curiosity about place.

An atmospheric Pacific Northwest landscape from Liv Bergdahl’s photographic practice
Bergdahl Art · Photography and site-specific earth pigment

The connecting thread

Made where forest, water, and story meet.

The work moves between fine art, useful objects, freshwater field culture, and an imagined Cascadian wild. Each expression has its own voice; all belong to the same house.

What holds them together is a way of looking: patient, tactile, a little unruly, and grounded in the character of the Northwest.

Under the How Very Ladylike name

The four expressions

Studio practice

Bergdahl Art

Liv Bergdahl’s photography and site-specific earth-pigment studio, attentive to the particular light, weather, and material character of place.

Collection

Forest & Fjord

A collection by How Very Ladylike, shaped by Nordic restraint and the textures of forest, coast, and field life.

Collection

Pike Slayer

A collection by How Very Ladylike, rooted in freshwater fishing culture and its rough-edged rituals, stories, and humor.

Original storyworld

Cascadia: Protector of the PNW

An original storyworld featuring Cada and Sable the raven in a Pacific Northwest alive with memory, mystery, and guardianship.

A living body of work

“Different forms, held together by place.”

Follow the journal for field notes from the studio, the waterline, and the evolving worlds of How Very Ladylike.

Read the Journal