As a child I drew and painted imaginary subjects, as I got a bit older I wanted to illustrate fairy tales. During my working career I had to limit drawing and painting due to lack of time until I managed to overcome the problem by painting quick small flower pastels, then more and more complicated works, and image making returned to my life. However, during the last few years I have also found again the childhood freedom of making my images exactly how, when, and what subject and style I want.

Nature and the environment have always been close to my heart, and my interest in the history of nature and its inhabitants has strengthened after I moved to the lands of ancient dwellings in Karjaa. To get to know the biological world of my home yard, I have so far photographed and listed a total of 553 different plant, mushroom, insect and animal species in Finnish, English and Latin. I have gotten to know my area of ​​residence by moving around and studying church records, old maps and the history of the region. The wonderful creatures found on the maps and art of the Middle Ages and the organisms I have met in nature with their Latin names have undoubtedly inspired my artistic activity.

The works in the MUNDUS ANIMI exhibition are like documentations of the discoveries of an imaginary universe, which pen, brush, paper, canvas, clay, some thought or atmosphere have brought to my mind and to describe. In the works named in Latin, the animate and the inanimate, the familiar and the unknown, the beautiful and the off-putting, combine into odd, even scary scenes, or beings and organisms, in which the viewer may see features of animals, plants and mythical creatures.

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