About

I want to capture the brightness and arouse good emotions. Even melancholic artworks - such as Farewell, which portrays death (Figurative 2020) - are comforting at the core.

 

Nature, light and space are the basic elements of my work, these have shaped me since my childhood, which I've spent in my home country Finland. My paintings are compositionally in balance. I paint on canvas or wood.

 

With my family (husband, daughter and cat) I live as an artist and a translator from finnish to german in the surrounding area of Frankfurt am Main.

 

I began to paint as a young mother. In that process I consciously took my own path: I experimented in my atelier, visited exhibitions, did research online and in books about artists, whose artworks had spoken to me, like Ensor, Pollock and Turner. From James Ensor and Reidar Särestöniemi I learned to use colors boldly. Jackson Pollocks Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle inspired my mythical animal motifs. William Turners paintings made me apply acrylic paint in several thin layers.