Introduction
I am an artist with a deep passion for her work. I am constantly striving to develop my skills and paint as a material has fascinated me for a long time. I have developed a somatic “hand feel” for the painting material – a subtle awareness that allows for free and creative play.
In uncertain times, art offers a quiet refuge. It gives me a way to search for beauty, ask questions and touch something beyond words. The works are pieces of invisible spaces and abstract infinity. The paint material flows, moves and lives. I set the basic arrangements and then let things happen. Sometimes the works paint themselves and start to speak to me. The outsider part is the observer part. Abandoning oneself is a new idea in my art. I have been exploring my own visual cosmos for over 25 years. When painting, the process is the essence of everything and it only succeeds when it is organic, unhurried, honest and alive. Each work is its own independent entity, its own voice.
The paintings are not just pictures – they are moments of confusion.
I do not consider myself a modernist or a postmodernist. I do not think the critical approach of postmodernism helps to build a good life. My art is not conceptual, cold or ironic. I am not a fighter; I seek to nourish and encourage rather than criticize. I hope that my works have a deep respect for life, beauty, miracles and love. Could it be simultaneously filled with humility and yet also a sense of sublimity? When I paint, I think about things. I talk to the paintings and process the emotions that arise in the process. My philosophical home is created precisely in these moments where I can think and enjoy visual articulation.
The work is a by-product, but unlike a person, it can sometimes be finished.
Welcome to my atelier!
Do not hesitate to contact me by email and request a meeting. You can find my atelier in the old village school of Kärkkäälä, in Suonenjoki, Finland.
Contact me by email mari.arvinen(at)gmail.com

