I paint figures in which one can see a gorilla, a dog, a saint, a modified face or an essence. The touch is sometimes swirling and labyrinthine, sometimes sharp and angular, but the intention is always to create a universe of its own within each painting.
Love and despair light and darkness truth and fear
eternity and finitude
pleasure and pain joy and sufferening
pride and humbleness
simplicity and complexity
weight and lightness
sensuality, carnality and spirituality
unity and fragility
often go hand in hand.
Everything is based on rhythm, everything begins with touch.
Painting for me is always a new attempt to be as free and whole as possible; there is always a new opportunity to be in the moment, to be in motion where things can – and may – happen. Everything is possible for a sensitive and endlessly curious mind.
Thanks to the Finnish Cultural Foundation / Uusimaa Fund and Taike.
The exhibition is dedicated to Elvi & Olavi.
Download the list of works here.
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