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Appreciation of Art
Originally published 21st of December 2024 Today, boys and girls and others, I want to talk about appreciating art. Not from the angle of current events, where it is clear that the current government is willing to gut it, as it is clear that they do not understand why art should be appreciated. Art can…
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Summertime stores
Originally published 24th of May 2024 Right to the point: in this summer you can buy my small paintings of home guardian spirits (kodinhenki in finnish) from Kankaisten tila, handicraft granary in Hämeenlinna, Finland (https://www.kankaistentila.fi) Kodinhenki, home guardian spirit, is a part of Finnish mythology. It was believed that each and every building has its…
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Art friends
Originally published 27th of February 2024 So, today boys and girls and others, I want to talk about art friends. Short version: get some. Long version: An art friend is a person, who also does art. Friends don’t need to share the same style or medium with you. There are pros in either way. Art…
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Sorry! Sorry!
Originally published 29th of December 2023 Yup, I have not written anything here for about four months. Nope, I have no good reason. Not even that I had nothing to tell, as I am so self centered that I should be able to always tell something. The last couple weeks I can explain away by…
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Solo exhibition
Originally published 19th of August 2023 Omg I have not written pretty much anything about my first solo exhibition! I have been pretty overwhelmed with other stuff, as in the same time I have been part of preparing for an international exhibition, that kind of did take everything out of me. But I told something…
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Ramping up the exhibition
Originally published 18th of July 2023 I have been quiet here, but outside this blog so much has happened! I joined Kantolan Kulttuuritoimijat ry, maybe better known as SoHo Hampton and got pretty much immediately immersed in organizing things. One of those is now coming to fruitation: Exhibition in Ukraine, Kyiv. That has been one…
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Goddesses
Originally published 1st of April 2023 A while ago I painted Tuulikki, the Finnish goddess of wind. I had planned a whole series, continuing with easy ones: Akka, head goddess and sort of mother earth, then Päivikki, goddess of the day. Then, I started to go a bit more into Finnish mythology. And there, women…
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I need to get exhibitions going
Originally published 5th of March 2023 Lately I have been quite focused on my new job, creating new paintings, trying to not be a human asshole… and have completely neglected this blog, finding venues to exhibit my artistic endeavors and to try to figure social media out. So, that’s not good. Well, some good (as…
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I’ll figure out the headline later
Originally published 4th of February 2023 I’m not a fast painter. I actually take surprisingly long, as part of the process is just to stare at the work and try to figure out what is wrong or what it needs. From outside that looks probably hilarious, since it looks like I try to high five…
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Sum up (that not delicious cousin of dim sum)
Originally published 31st of December 2022 Now at the end of the year I’m supposed to look back and I don’t know, contemplate how I feel about stuff that happened? Health: Definitely good stuff, the biggest injury in the family was one broken wrist. One kid got a diagnosis and proper meds, so not many…
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