As an artist, I examine and develop the way I observe and experience my surroundings. Through my paintings I examine the value of physical objects in a home and the significance they have for our soul space and dreamscape.
To me the home is an intimate place where the interior is loaded with memories, thoughts and atmospheres which I try to capture in my paintings by documenting my childhood home.

The Poetics of Space, a book written 1958 by by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard has been an important source of inspiration in my artistic practice.
In the book, Bachelard applies poetry, philosophy, and phenomenology to describe the influence of houses, spaces, and interiors on our metaphysical life and the creation of dreams. In this context, Bachelard highlights the childhood home as particularly influential for our dream world, which is also one of the central themes in my work.

My paintings are based on the visible world with everyday motifs from interiors from my childhood home. The childhood home gives us the first experience of a home and is the place where we first dream and bring our imagination to life.
To breathe life to the portrayed interiors I use elements of reflections from glass surfaces that turn the paintings into a visual play. I want to create an illusion of a room and try solving the problem between figurative and abstract imagery in a physical space. The image is built as a collaboration between reality and fantasy.
I find it visually interesting how the different reflections distort the reality and give the paintings a dreamlike imagery. The space becomes new.

My paintings work as an invitation for the viewer to turn the presented interiors into their own space.

b. 1992, Vantaa, Finland
Based in Kokkola, Finland