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,...
Walk on the Fairy Trail | May 29 – June 22, 2019
Let's take a walk on the Fairy Trail! Souvenirs, souvenirs: here is the virtual pop up show that happened at Galleri Skarpans in Åland Island from May 29 til June 22, 2019. Leila Cromwell-Morgan Lönnroth runs the gallery with talent and elegance....
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...
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 in...
After All What is Creativity?
In our head, everything is possible. It takes some time to make it happen though. I can only imagine how much space this dancer and freediver had to create to come up with this piece! For me, creativity is closely linked to the space we are moving in. Because...
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 Helsinki....
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...
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...
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 nature...
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...
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 in progress....
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...
What Kind of Drawing Are You ? Take Quizz!
What if the drawing style you like was talking about who you are? Have you ever wondered what kind of sensitivity your personality most aligns with? Visual art and sensitivity have this in common: It is hard to put words on it. But it's not because we can't...
A Horse in the Living Room of Helsinki! Art Happening
"Totally lost the sense of time" "I felt ME!" "Very focused and intense" "I felt I was an important piece in the universe" "Everything was flowing nicely" "Energetic and relaxing" Featured in Helsingin Sanomat! Click the logo to read the full article in Finnish...
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....