Who do you tell 2024

Exhibition. Galleria K, Vantaa.

Seriousness or playfulness, or both. There´s something about the passion, repetition and commitment of painting that has always fascinated me. You are at the same time extremely serious and at the same time you know it´s just paint. The finality of death and the everlasting possibilities of life are combined in action of painting. All the time, something is born and dies. Painting is about balancing with a state of mind, where you have to laugh and smile, while knowing life is full of misery and pain. How to be at the same time serious and at the same time playfully experiment with paint. Bird’s-eye view from eye to eye and back. Painting is a minefield of contradictions, and each painting is a suggestion for a solution.

The balance between seriousness and playfulness is certainly one of the guiding factors in my work. The second is my interest in the paint material. The relationship between tempera, oil paint, pigments and bases interests me. How do thin and thick, transparent, opaque, rough and shiny matter relate to each other? How does unpainted and painted converse? How do colours change in relation to other colours and materials? How does movement and a sense of presence arise? Lately, I’ve been interested in the new rhythm that is arises on canvas while working, how to continue it, how to underline new recurring meanings from the rhythm of colour and material, and to fade others.