The story of a unique friendship and a gift of love
You like visual arts but you don’t know how to draw anymore. It has been ages you haven’t picked up a brush or a pencil.
Do me a favor. Listen to the story of Sigrid’s Emotion Portrait or how the chemistry between two people is the root cause of the art piece called The Gift of Love.
Why colors tell us about relationship?
Colors are like people. They work together or not.. This morning I was working on my daily project to paint the mountain view from my breaksfast table. Later on, my husband saw this piece with some pink and asked: “Do you see the mountain pink or do you make...
Negative space or the space in between
Where are you today? What if we could travel anywhere we want at any time? Between Finland and France… These two weeks have been a thousand years. As I crossed the Baltic sea, I had time to reflect on how grateful I was to live in Finland and how sad I felt to...
How to improve innovation of your team through drawing* and horses?
*No drawing experience and skills are required. “Bringing the body, mind and soul into balance and finding new ways to express oneself were the topics of today. Under the lead of the French artist Marie Sand Punda’s staff got the chance to learn about drawing,...
Embrace Failure!
“We can’t stop now. I thought I’d stop when it was going well. But now it’s going very badly. It’s too late. We can’t stop now.” Those words come straight from “A Giacometti Portrait”. James Lord sat for eighteen days while his friend Alberto Giacometti did his...
8 Secrets to Enjoy Finnish Winter
1. Look for the yellow and violet Colors’ difference is what stroke me the most when I moved to Finland from Italy. Life here is violet and yellow when in Southern Europe or even in the US, life is blue and orange. I talked a lot about that with people in...
What Did Van Gogh See?
Talking about Van Gogh often leads to clichés that have nothing to do with the visual world: the last auction record, speculations about his cut ear or the grasshopper found in one of his painting (banal event when one does plein air painting…). I would like to share...
The Thousand and One Greys
Unlike what we think, Finland has one of the most colorful and bright winter. The intensity of colors is striking. And what we could think of grey is in fact a multicolor palette…I know it is hard to believe…So I have studied hard this winter… Work...
Sense of Sight
Behind the easel Watch a scene like a horse I could become a horse, or more exactly seeing like a horse. I couldn’t believe it. The French horse stable leader in horsemanship, Haras de la Cense, has featured a video simulating how a horse sees the world....