Gallery BE'19
Uudenmaankatu 19-21
00120 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 9 644025
OPEN:
tue, thu, fri 11am-5pm
we 12pm-8pm, sat-sun 12pm-16pm
Galleria BE'19 is now on Facebook.
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Gallery BE'19
Uudenmaankatu 19-21
00120 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 9 644025
OPEN:
tue, thu, fri 11am-5pm
we 12pm-8pm, sat-sun 12pm-16pm
Galleria BE'19 is now on Facebook.
Join us from here
Press Release
Italy has had a powerful influence in my artistic work. During my travels there I have experienced how the past and modern times meet, how the wall coats reveal underlying layers marked by the periods of time, how the worn, decaying surfaces tell you about living, and how all that creates an atmosphere of peace and silence.
Mixed media is mainly my painting method. I use acrylic, charcoal, sand etc. The textures vary from light watercolours to thick, sometimes almost relief-like constructions.
An observation, experience, any most common everyday thing or feeling can give an inspiration. Even landscape may be inspiring. Painting takes you along, gives new points of view, new interpretations. I let thoughts and feelings take me, to something new, something never experienced before.
Surely everyone experiences the painting in his or her own way depending on the moment´s feeling and state of mind. But hopefully something occurs between the viewer and my painting, maybe a stir, a slight change or awakening.
Maija Helin-Åvall
