Toimii (works)
2023-4
Oil on canvas
100cm x 100cm
Toimii is my largest (finished) painting, it was displayed at HEO's Muistijälkiä — Traces of Memory
exhibition in January of 24. During a particularly dark and cold winter, I grew a sense of cabin fever exacerbated by the unfinished pieces scattered throughout my studio apartment. This painting of my studio reflected the frozen box that I called home. Below is the text alongside my work at HEO's exhibition.
exhibition in January of 24. During a particularly dark and cold winter, I grew a sense of cabin fever exacerbated by the unfinished pieces scattered throughout my studio apartment. This painting of my studio reflected the frozen box that I called home. Below is the text alongside my work at HEO's exhibition.
Memories linger in the first layers of abandoned works. Abandoned works curse my home, every corner you turn. Like the paint, these memories dry. The works are abandoned never to reach their potential, never able to express themselves. In this way I have been cursed to silence, for all the works I have abandoned. I have abandoned my ability to speak, and all that i'm left with are memories. Vain muistot on Jäljellä.
Underpainting the space of the room
blocking in basic shapes
impressionistic style brushstrokes on the window
details with thick brushstroke for a sense of immersion
the very central point of the piece, which creates planes of depth to draw in the viewer quite literally in the room
Self Potrait
2025
Pencil on Paper
21cm x 13cm
I feel the need to make a self-potrait at certain times, in times of great signifigance or in times of great uncertainty. My relationship with myself is a strained one, rythms of ruination reverberate within my skull. When drawing this self potrait of myself from imagination. It became too loud. Shortly after I watched my world crumble from the vibrations.
Snow covered field in Karjaa
2025
Charcoal on Paper
21cm x 30cm
In the land of the midnight sun, our winters host the noon moon. During this period in winter, I find it so lovely and queit, an unworldly experience, the light comes from the snow on the ground rather than the sky above.
Sketch of Fox
2025
Pencil on Paper
21cm x 13cm
Foxes mean a lot to me.
Komposition
2024
Oil on canvas
80 cm x 100cm
One of the two pieces displayed at Kuvataide ja Urbaani Kuva's spring exhibition. An ode to the village of Tapiola, and the different view points of the sea that I grew to love.
Inspired by my uncle figure, Jan Glinski's 2011 piece "Wave", I grew intrigued by seascapes, with hindsight I really wish I left it as a seascape but at the time I really was also quite interested by Piet Mondrian's compositions.
Reference mockup on photoshop
expirementing with different shapes for the fluid waves
breaking waves met with detail with heavy brush strokes
Began work to fill in other seascapes of tapiola
Untitled
2024
Charcoal on paper
21cm x 30cm
The second of the two pieces displayed at Kuvataide ja Urbaani Kuva's spring exhibition. This piece was a spur of the moment piece, two nights before the exhibition, inspired by Frank Weston Benson's manipulation of light, I began to draw from imagination.Hours went by, and the morning light crept into my studio after hours of seeing through a tunnel. I finished the piece just before my morning metro into the city to HEO's studio.
Im not sure what exactly compelled me to make this piece, but I feel strength and optimism in the man's expression.
Uncles Garden
2023
Oil on canvas
60cm x 40cm
This piece was painted ''en plein air'' in my uncles garden. A late spring day in southern Finland, the suns kiss last long on the sky as it lights up the world below. My uncles garden is a very special place to me. When I lived at his house I would spend countless afternoons gazing at the garden you see here.
Untitled
2023
Charcoal on paper
29.7cm x 42cm
