Original Paintings

Artist's note: "I’m sure the story of Adam and Eve is familiar to all of us. I wanted to bring some extra contrast to the painting with their outer appearance: Female-male, light-dark."

The size of the original painting is 50 x 65 cm

Artist's note: "This is one of the early paintings of my official artist career and I did not yet have the confidence to create something more ambitious and imaginative. I had a great fear for failure when I was creating this artwork and felt nervous while painting. If I were to re-create this painting now, I’d make the tail of the peacock larger in size and more complex in detail."

The size of the original painting is 65 x 52 cm

 Artist's note: "Many of us live our lives without ever stopping to question the choices we make, without much thought spared for the direction we take. We keep moving on without knowing, or caring, where we’re going. The lights are on but no one’s home."

The size of the original painting is 24 x 28 cm

Artist's note: "I often get lost into my creation. It feels like everything is flowing very effortlessly: my hand is moving the pen or the brush on the paper on its own, just like the jellyfish are dancing around the mermaid."

The size of the original painting is 58 x 124 cm

Artist's note: "I just really wanted to create a tiger that would have her stripes formed by leaves."

The size of the original painting is 32 x 36 cm

Keywords: tiger, jungle, original painting, cat, cats

Artist's note: "A portrayal of confidence. A practice painting from 2015, and I think I totally needed all that confidence at the time."

The size of the original painting is 27 x 32 cm

Keywords: lion, cat, cats, original painting

Artist's note: "An early watercolor practice. A very simple one, though it felt like a great achievement to me at the time. I was amazed to find out I was able to paint things like this, it was as if I had just started discovering artistic abilities I didn’t know I had."

The size of the original painting is 20 x 35 cm

Keywords: mermaid, water, ocean, dolphin, sea

Artist's note: "Just when I had drawn the outlines for this painting and started coloring it, I realized I wanted to get rid of the black outlines in my paintings. Because of this I ended up finishing this painting quite hastily and consider it as a practice piece."

The size of the original painting is 82 x 121 cm

Keywords: antelope, original painting

Artist's note: "I just love drawing horses with their beautifully flowing manes. A familiar element seen in many of my creations is the flowers and leaves growing out of the living creatures. It is as if the horse grew out of the ground together with the plants."

The size of the original painting is 67 x 69 cm

Keywords: horse, horses, humming birds, flowers, fantasy, magical, original painting

Artist's note: "What has passed will never come back but remains in our memories. These memories and experiences have shaped the dress of the lady; The cuckoo clocks are different phases of her life, all unique, yet all part of the same dress."

The size of the original painting is 55 x 90 cm

Keywords: woman, clocks, time, hawk, dress, fairy tale, original painting

“She had a tendency to escape the reality into the imaginary world of her mind. There, in her wild imagination, she would make everything be just the way she wanted.”

The size of the original painting is 47 x 35 cm

Keywords: woman, girl, summer, roses, butterfly, sleepy, original painting

Artist's note: "A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. 

I wanted to see how my style and skill had improved and decided to create a new version of “Siblings”, which I had painted seven months ago."

The size of the original painting is 128 x 67 cm

Keywords: tigers, yin and yang, fantasy, original painting, cats

Artist's note: "This was a commissioned illustration for a company. They only bought the right to use the scanned image so I still have the original."

The size of the original painting is 69 x 58 cm

Keywords: eagle, birds, aurora borealis, norhtern lights, sky, original painting

Artist's note: "This was a commissioned illustration for a company. They only bought the right to use the scanned image so I still have the original."

Artist's note: “A design I created to be the cover of the yearly student calendar of the University of Jyväskylä."

The size of the original painting is 20 x 32 cm

Keywords: cats, original painting