Painting is the place where my artistic journey began and where many of the questions that still shape my practice first emerged. Before thread, textile and installation became my primary languages, I explored the expressive possibilities of pigment, gesture and layered surfaces as a way of understanding the invisible relationships between human beings and the living world.
My early paintings investigate organic forms as both visual structures and metaphors for life itself. Inspired by botanical growth, cellular patterns, forests and natural phenomena, they reflect on transformation as a universal condition. Germination and decay, mutation and metamorphosis, order and entropy become recurring themes through which nature reveals itself not as a landscape to be represented, but as a living process to which we belong.
Over time, my palette evolved from the luminous, almost icon-like intensity of my early works toward subtler chromatic harmonies inspired by the Nordic landscape. During the years spent in Finland, the forest became both subject and method of inquiry, leading to projects such as Listen to Trees and MetaForest, where ecological awareness, memory and human experience converged.
Although my artistic practice has gradually expanded into fiber art, artist’s books, printmaking and installation, painting remains the foundation of my visual language. It taught me to observe the rhythms of nature, to think through materials, and to understand the artwork as a living ecosystem in constant transformation.
These paintings represent the roots of an ongoing research that continues to unfold across different media while remaining faithful to the same essential questions: how memory inhabits matter, how nature shapes identity, and how art can become a space of care, connection and transformation.
