After a very long blogging silence on this web page I am happy to announce that I will have an exhibition of my own art from 3rd to 28th of February this year. The venue is a narrowish corridor gallery aptly named Galleria Promenade, which resides in the library of my hometown Karjaa/Karis, Finland. There is just 10 meters of wall space on the second floor corridor for hanging the 21 works (narrowed down from 26 originally intended) I have chosen to exhibit, with maximum 4 hours or less to do the job, but I think that with a little bit of help from a friend I should manage.

The exhibition, which will include pencil drawings and aquarelles I have made quite recently, i.e. this year and last year, is dominated by shades of gray scale and imaginary themes. While in the previous works I have often drawn and painted concrete objects based on my own observation or photos in a realistic style, in the latest works I have wanted to apply a similar style to present the products of my imagination. Since these creations are previously unknown and unexplored even to myself, I have named the exhibition and the works in the language that has also been used to name natural science phenomena, namely Latin.

Many of the creatures, life forms, views and places of my recent works have entered my mind late at night and remained spinning in my head. They have kept me awake at bedtime and forced myself to jot down a few lines and words in a memo in the middle of the night, so that I wouldn’t forget them in the morning. On the other hand, some of them I hadn’t even thought about until they appeared almost by themselves on the paper from the mark of a wandering pen or brush. For me, drawing and painting are meditation and remembering, like an idea mill that grinds what I have seen and experienced, producing new ideas, discoveries, insights, mental images. In particular, image making without a concrete model is endless playing with ideas, experimenting and finding solutions to the challenges of depicting light and shadow, shape, space and three-dimensionality, for example.