I'm visual artist, born in 1992 in Finland. 

When I was 13 I saw for the first time the works of Max Ernst and Dali, and knew I will become a visual artist - thought I had drawn already before that. The feeling was so strong, that I used to spend all the evenings painting and drawing, usually from two to ten hours a day. So, it was all about practice, practice and practice. I had my first exhibitions when I was a teenager, and in my twenties I got in to an art-school. In 2015 I graduated, and continued as an artist.

My work is usually somewhere between surreal and abstract, and some traces of symbolism can also be found. Lately I have been doing a lot of printmaking, because I had emphasis of printmaking in art-school. I love making very detailed pictures and have patience in long artistic processes, so printmaking was a logical choice.

The themes of my works have changed a little through the years. In the early years themes were somewhere in the dream world and spiritual world. Lately my works have had emphasis on psychological things, like the relationship between conscious and subconscious parts of mind. I feel I'm connected to both, the "good" and the "bad" sides of human mind, and my works bring something to show viewers from both of these worlds. 

Photo: Heidi Kirjavainen