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I'm visual artist born and trained in Finland. By my parents I was introduced early on to the multiple media I still work in; ranging from watercolor and soft pastel to oil paint and print making as well as sculpture. I worked and lived in Munich, Germany, until recently and have now relocated to Florida. My works have been represented and exhibited by galleries internationally since my graduation from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. I've have also worked in illustration for both factual and fictional works and have deep love of story telling in images. In my etchings I take the viewer to a miniature world of fairytales of undefined time. It is an inner world of contemplation reflecting life and its small, yet important aspects crucial to happiness and what could be thought of as good life. What first seems like children’s illustration is intended for all all ages. The little mice in these images lead lives with enough room for companionship, content solitude and creativity. The interiors in my paintings are often an imaginary space with real elements collected from several locations in my sketches and photographs. They are paintings of the space in between: composed windows to ephemeral: with an invitation to step in an contemplate in slow time. My paintings of interiors, giant flowers and composed snapshot still lives are like a dream one is given an opportunity to stroll into, a space of improbable and to behold the time standing still. In paintings the subjects reach beyond their natural size and lifetime allowing us to stretch the experience of beauty from a sparkling passing moment to a life time. The soft pastel paintings in my body of work portraying wild, partially endangered, animals are precisely that: Portraits. In principle I only paint animals I’ve seen in wild in their natural habitat myself. Over the years, I have observed, that were I not a visual artist, I would probably have trained in natural sciences. The same curiosity towards life and its ephemeral nature drives me as an artist to study, see and understand more. The observation and reflection of these individuals turns into studies of parallels and contrast; of time mutually shared in the act of perception and presence. In this serene and curious space I wish my audience to feel a moment of equilibrium as well as the delight we can experience in the presence of beauty. …I'm visual artist born and trained in Finland. By my parents I was introduced early on to the multiple media I still work in; ranging from watercolor and soft pastel to oil paint and print making as well as sculpture. I worked and lived in Munich, Germany, until recently and have now relocated to Florida. My works have been represented and exhibited by galleries internationally since my graduation from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. I've have also worked in illustration for both factual and fictional works and have deep love of story telling in images. In my etchings I take the viewer to a miniature world of fairytales of undefined time. It is an inner world of contemplation reflecting life and its small, yet important aspects crucial to happiness and what could be thought of as good life. What first seems like children’s illustration is intended for all all ages. The little mice in these images lead lives with enough room for companionship, content solitude and creativity. The interiors in my paintings are often an imaginary space with real elements collected from several locations in my sketches and photographs. They are paintings of the space in between: composed windows to ephemeral: with an invitation to step in an contemplate in slow time. My paintings of interiors, giant flowers and composed snapshot still lives are like a dream one is given an opportunity to stroll into, a space of improbable and to behold the time standing still. In paintings the subjects reach beyond their natural size and lifetime allowing us to stretch the experience of beauty from a sparkling passing moment to a life time. The soft pastel paintings in my body of work portraying wild, partially endangered, animals are precisely that: Portraits. In principle I only paint animals I’ve seen in wild in their natural habitat myself. Over the years, I have observed, that were I not a visual artist, I would probably have trained in natural sciences. The same curiosity towards life and its ephemeral nature drives me as an artist to study, see and understand more. The observation and reflection of these individuals turns into studies of parallels and contrast; of time mutually shared in the act of perception and presence. In this serene and curious space I wish my audience to feel a moment of equilibrium as well as the delight we can experience in the presence of beauty.

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I'm visual artist born and trained in Finland. By my parents I was introduced early on to the multiple media I still work in; ranging from watercolor and soft pastel to oil paint and print making as well as sculpture. I worked and lived in Munich, Germany, until recently and have now relocated to Florida. My works have been represented and exhibited by galleries internationally since my graduation from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. I've have also worked in illustration for both factual and fictional works and have deep love of story telling in images. In my etchings I take the viewer to a miniature world of fairytales of undefined time. It is an inner world of contemplation reflecting life and its small, yet important aspects crucial to happiness and what could be thought of as good life. What first seems like children’s illustration is intended for all all ages. The little mice in these images lead lives with enough room for companionship, content solitude and creativity. The interiors in my paintings are often an imaginary space with real elements collected from several locations in my sketches and photographs. They are paintings of the space in between: composed windows to ephemeral: with an invitation to step in an contemplate in slow time. My paintings of interiors, giant flowers and composed snapshot still lives are like a dream one is given an opportunity to stroll into, a space of improbable and to behold the time standing still. In paintings the subjects reach beyond their natural size and lifetime allowing us to stretch the experience of beauty from a sparkling passing moment to a life time. The soft pastel paintings in my body of work portraying wild, partially endangered, animals are precisely that: Portraits. In principle I only paint animals I’ve seen in wild in their natural habitat myself. Over the years, I have observed, that were I not a visual artist, I would probably have trained in natural sciences. The same curiosity towards life and its ephemeral nature drives me as an artist to study, see and understand more. The observation and reflection of these individuals turns into studies of parallels and contrast; of time mutually shared in the act of perception and presence. In this serene and curious space I wish my audience to feel a moment of equilibrium as well as the delight we can experience in the presence of beauty. …I'm visual artist born and trained in Finland. By my parents I was introduced early on to the multiple media I still work in; ranging from watercolor and soft pastel to oil paint and print making as well as sculpture. I worked and lived in Munich, Germany, until recently and have now relocated to Florida. My works have been represented and exhibited by galleries internationally since my graduation from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. I've have also worked in illustration for both factual and fictional works and have deep love of story telling in images. In my etchings I take the viewer to a miniature world of fairytales of undefined time. It is an inner world of contemplation reflecting life and its small, yet important aspects crucial to happiness and what could be thought of as good life. What first seems like children’s illustration is intended for all all ages. The little mice in these images lead lives with enough room for companionship, content solitude and creativity. The interiors in my paintings are often an imaginary space with real elements collected from several locations in my sketches and photographs. They are paintings of the space in between: composed windows to ephemeral: with an invitation to step in an contemplate in slow time. My paintings of interiors, giant flowers and composed snapshot still lives are like a dream one is given an opportunity to stroll into, a space of improbable and to behold the time standing still. In paintings the subjects reach beyond their natural size and lifetime allowing us to stretch the experience of beauty from a sparkling passing moment to a life time. The soft pastel paintings in my body of work portraying wild, partially endangered, animals are precisely that: Portraits. In principle I only paint animals I’ve seen in wild in their natural habitat myself. Over the years, I have observed, that were I not a visual artist, I would probably have trained in natural sciences. The same curiosity towards life and its ephemeral nature drives me as an artist to study, see and understand more. The observation and reflection of these individuals turns into studies of parallels and contrast; of time mutually shared in the act of perception and presence. In this serene and curious space I wish my audience to feel a moment of equilibrium as well as the delight we can experience in the presence of beauty.

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I’m visual artist born and trained in Finland. By my parents I was introduced early on to the multiple media I still work in; ranging from watercolor and soft pastel to oil paint and print making as well as sculpture.
I worked and lived in Munich, Germany, until recently and have now relocated to Florida. My works have been represented and exhibited by galleries internationally since my graduation from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. I’ve have also worked in illustration for both factual and fictional works and have deep love of story telling in images.

In my etchings I take the viewer to a miniature world of fairytales of undefined time. It is an inner world of contemplation reflecting life and its small, yet important aspects crucial to happiness and what could be thought of as good life. What first seems like children’s illustration is intended for all all ages. The little mice in these images lead lives with enough room for companionship, content solitude and creativity.

The interiors in my paintings are often an imaginary space with real elements collected from several locations in my sketches and photographs. They are paintings of the space in between: composed windows to ephemeral: with an invitation to step in an contemplate in slow time. My paintings of interiors, giant flowers and composed snapshot still lives are like a dream one is given an opportunity to stroll into, a space of improbable and to behold the time standing still. In paintings the subjects reach beyond their natural size and lifetime allowing us to stretch the experience of beauty from a sparkling passing moment to a life time.

The soft pastel paintings in my body of work portraying wild, partially endangered, animals are precisely that: Portraits. In principle I only paint animals I’ve seen in wild in their natural habitat myself. Over the years, I have observed, that were I not a visual artist, I would probably have trained in natural sciences. The same curiosity towards life and its ephemeral nature drives me as an artist to study, see and understand more. The observation and reflection of these individuals turns into studies of parallels and contrast; of time mutually shared in the act of perception and presence.

In this serene and curious space I wish my audience to feel a moment of equilibrium as well as the delight we can experience in the presence of beauty.