News | Iceland Monitor | Tue 8 Mar 2016 | 11.30 GMT

Artist loses three years worth of work in fire

Artist Halldór Ragnarsson at his studio in Grettisgata. Here he is accompanied by designer Helga Lilja Magnúsdóttir for an exhibition they worked on together last year. Mbl.is/ Eggert Jóhannesson

"I'm just in total shock, I can't really think straight. I just hope for the best, one always has to," says artist Halldór Ragnarsson who has a studio at Grettisgata 87 in Reykjavik which caught fire last night.

He fears that he's lost three years worth of artwork as well as computers and all sorts of valuable artist equipment.

"If the fire fighters hosed the whole place down then all my stuff has been destroyed," says Ragnarsson. The fire did not come up in the studio itself but on the other side of the building.