Exhibition: Dutch Light in Helsinki 5.-17.1.2010
Welcome to my exhibition in Helsinki! Akvart Gallery presents a selection of my most recent watercolour works.
These works are studies of colour and light. Some of them are figurative paintings and a few are collages in which the image is broken into fragments of colour to create impressions of light and space. The process was inspired by the amazing changes in the light conditions I’ve witnessed while painting in the Netherlands. Weather in Holland seems to change within seconds from one to another and the low lands offer a wide horizon to admire it.
The challenge and fun of trying to capture the altering light and colour impressions is in the limited time to observe. Working has to be based strongly on the memory of a certain moment. Painting from memory rather than from observation gives freedom to go beyond an actual view. Picturing light becomes a tool to describe a feeling. Light is magic, it can make any object or view glow and sparkle. That is what I want to capture in my paintings.
Akvart Galleria, Humalistonkatu 1, 00250 Helsinki Opening hours: tuesday, thursday, friday 11-17 wednesday 11-19 saturday & sunday 11-16——————————————-
New books on colour, architecture and design
This autumn two books in which I had the pleasure to give my contribution were published.
One of them is Muotoiloa! (ISBN 978-952-9759-95-8) a design education guidebook to teachers, published by Kerhokeskus and edited by Marjo Kenttälä. I’m really proud to have been a part of the project which resulted in this great book full of inspiring ideas for exploring designed environment with children. I highly recommend it – to anyone who can read Finnish. Visit www.kerhokeskus.fi for more information.
In October came out Colour in contemporary architecture – projects / essays / calendar / manifestoes (ISBN 9789085065746). It was curated by the Department of Architecture of Delft University of Technology. Editors were Susanne Komossa, Kees Rouw and Joost Hillen. In the book you can read an essay Thickness of colour I wrote together with my husband, architect Bas Gremmen. Amongst essays by several architects and interesting projects Colour in contemporary architecture presents an architectural timeline in the context of colour. Great reference book to everyone interested in the subject! The book is bilingual; all texts are in English and in Dutch. Publisher’s website: www.sunarchitecture.nl
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Postcards from Holland – exhibition in Rotterdam, 7.10. – 12.11.2009
My paintings are displayed during october and november 2009 in The Finnish Seamen’s Church of Rotterdam under the title “Postcards from Holland”.
The exhibition presents watercolour works I’ve painted during the first one-and-half years I’ve stayed in the Netherlands. They are visual notes of things that awoke my interest in a new environment. Intense colours in these paintings are a result of the strengthened observation I experienced in changed surroundings. I saw things in a new light and found the feel of visual novelty very inspiring. Postcards from Holland is thus an exhibition about first impression.
While visiting this exhibition you can also enjoy the delicacies of the café of the Seamen’s church. Finnish kahvi and pulla. Lekker!
De Finse Zeemanskerk ‘s-Gravendijkwal 64, 3014 EG Rotterdam +31-10-436 61 64 www.finsekerk.com Opening hours: monday closed tuesday – friday 16.00 – 22.00 saturday 13.00 – 22.00 sunday 14.00 – 19.00—————————————–
Laura’s shoe in Italy 19 – 25 April 2009
My painting from 2007 “Laura’s shoe” is displayed in Watercolour International Festival Bellagio, Italy 19.-25.4.2009. The festival and exhibition takes place in village Bellagio that is situated by Como lake, about 50 km from Milan. Presenting more than 200 artists from member societies of ECWS (European Confederation of Watercolour Societies) the festival is organized by AIA (Associazione Italiana Acquerellisti).
