I haven't written my thoughts here for a long time. Summer has passed and autumn has arrived, the evenings are growing darker, and the amount of daylight is less than it was a few months ago. I notice that my gaze, too, turns inward.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? Do you look at yourself with curiosity, with judgment, or with gentle love? Through whose eyes do you observe your own being, and what do you want to see in your reflection, or how do you want it to feel deep inside?
Hi and spring greetings from the studio! I have closed my poster shop on Shopify due to the general economic downturn, and I am returning once again to original paintings and grassroots work. Perhaps someday in the future I will reopen it in a different format, but for now I am focusing on painting the works for my next solo...
This year I paint women who have lived. Not youth, not ideals, not what a woman is supposed to be. I paint what happens when a woman steps out from under the external gaze and begins to look for herself, directly, with her own enquiring and reflective gaze. I believe that ageing is not disappearing. It is arriving into a...
Hello, and Happy New Year 2026! I've been thinking a lot again about the processes of painting. An empty wooden panel can feel both full of promise and deeply frightening. It's like a quiet room or a space where all possibilities are present, yet nothing has taken shape. But when I paint with oils, I never begin from emptiness. I...
It has once again been a long time since my last blog post. My writing is guided by the need to express, not by a compulsive urge to produce something quickly just for the sake of publishing. I also realize that my need to pause after all the work projects of the past year has been deep and grounding. I...
Organizing an exhibition is always a major undertaking, especially a solo show. In group exhibitions, costs and responsibilities are shared, but in a solo show, the reins rest solely in the hands of the gallerist and the artist. My exhibition at the small window gallery Räyhä in Turku has now come to a happy close, and I've taken a moment...
Hello! Thank you for being here. I warmly invite you to visit my art exhibition I look towards Feminist Statements, opening on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at Gallery Räyhä in Turku.
It is a quiet and peaceful Sunday morning. The wind is blowing outside, and it looks like it will be a cloudy day; a good day to go to the forest to pick blueberries and chanterelles. I am sitting in my art studio at seven o'clock, the coffee maker is bubbling in the background, and I am examining the drying...
September 15 – October 5, 2025 In Turku, at the small but high-quality art gallery Räyhä, a solo exhibition of my eleven oil paintings will open. The exhibition is titled "I look towards Feminist statements." Each piece in the exhibition is painted on thick wooden panels, carefully sanded, primed, and painted with oil colors. The works are...