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... read more
Santtu, the Horse in the Living Room is Back!
“Liberating” “It’s hard!” “Relaxing” “Just focusing on one thing…” “New perspectives, new angles” “I want to draw more” Featured in HBL! Click the logo to read the full article in Swedish I don’t know where to start to talk about our session... read more
After All What is Creativity?
As February comes to an end, it’s the perfect time to reflect on winter ; the season of…creativity. For me, creativity is closely linked to the space we are moving in. Because creativity is always there with us, our job is to make room for it to come out…... read more
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... read more
Visit the Fairy Trail | A French Secret to Enjoy Finnish Winter
You are invited to walk along the Fairy Trail! For those who couldn’t make it in Helsinki, here is the virtual pop up show! It is colorful, intimate and warm like honey. It’s winter in Finland…Since I moved to to Northern Europe, I have received the good... read more
What Do You See?
One can see different things in a single art piece. This is what happened to Léa. At the initial viewing, Léa saw a heart shape in the piece that later became her Emotion Portrait™. It is funny how people know almost instantly their favorite one but they... read more
Featured in the Glamorous Finnish Magazine Gloria
Discover extracts of the article about my work in Gloria magazine, through the words of Jenna Kämäräinen and the lens of Anni Koponen Compliments to Finland “Marie has been living in Helsinki for more than a year now. She is impressed with Finland, its... read more
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... read more
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... read more
4 Ways to Celebrate your Sensitivity
1. Walk in a forest or with flowers in the metro Did you know that trees communicate and protect each other by generating hormones? When you walk in a forest, your heart beat slows down, your senses awake and your brain gets oxygenated. A Japanese researcher found... read moreJoin to receive everything the intuitive mind cares about while the rationale mind can’t get…
