"Through painting I reveal nature's hidden patterns. I compose with colors and the flourishing rhythm of my brush."
"Colors are often the basis of my entire painting process. I feel as if I am on an endless journey as I explore the behavior of color, light, darkness and shadows in different spaces.
Colors are children of light and darkness, they appear on the boundaries of light and dark, wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I studied Goethe's Theory of Color for four years at the Snellman Academy, and I familiarized myself with the color theory of Josef Albers while studying at the Free Art School in Helsinki. I am also a synesthete. I perceive the music and poetry that inspires me as colors. I believe that colors are an integral part of my way of living
The most important themes I work with have to do with nature and creation, studying plant life, endangered animals and humanity through the art of painting. In the series in which I explore the annual cycle I study the playfulness of light during different months as well as during different times of day. In my nature-themed paintings I work as an interpreter between nature and man. The orangutans in the rainforests and the polar bears on a melting sheet of ice speak to humans directly.
At the moment I mostly work with painting. I am also very keen on sculpting. I have created sculptures from clay, wood and stone, of which stone has become the most dear to me. I come from a long line of stone sculptors, so perhaps this passion is written in my DNA."