Milla Piirainen FINLAND

Milla Piirainen

Expressing emotions through colours is the best right now. Energies, music, love, peace, and laughter are part of my creative process. The arc of development is diverse and colourful. I am an explorer of the soul. Memories serve as starting points and springboards for creativity. The senses get mixed up, I hear pictures, I see scents as colours, it’s called synesthesia. I want to give the viewer something. I get enchanted, some atmosphere affects my mind so deeply that I get an aha-experience. A theme emerges from it, and I work on it in my mind. Then I let my hand take the lead. Making art opens into creative play. I become a child – I forget myself for a moment. All doing is emotional. I have something to say with it. Painting with emotion and creating something beautiful is especially important to me. I want to give people a good mood and a feeling of happiness and make them dream too. I’ve often noticed that when I’m totally engrossed in my work, the whole world fades away. There is no knowledge of the passage of time. There is only this moment.

Silver Moon, acrylic on canvas, 50x70cm, 2018