Size: 60 x 60 cm
Details: Mixed media on wood. Natural Pigments: wood, stones, ashes, sand..
Inspiration: This painting is like a window opening onto Lapland’s snow-covered fells and endless wilderness. It is created from natural pigments—clay, sand, ash, and wood—each carrying the silent stories of the earth. Every layer, every shade, is part of a journey into the cold stillness of the North, where the landscape tells a timeless tale through its raw and rugged beauty.
The upper part of the painting evokes the winter sky and vast snowfields, where the soft, cold morning light gently shifts. The pale hues of clay, with a delicate roughness, mirror the wind carrying snowflakes across the fells. This layer symbolizes the sky of Lapland—always slightly distant, always enigmatic.
In contrast, the warmer tones near the bottom, made from wood and sand, resemble dried grasses and lichen peeking through the snow as the first rays of spring light touch them. It is a quiet promise of renewal after the long winter—a reminder that life continues, even in the land ruled by frost and silence.
This landscape is an invitation to the North, where silence speaks, snow whispers, and fire warms. It is a reflection of nature’s steady, unyielding rhythm, offering us moments to pause, to listen, and to wonder.