A little redwood study I started in 2020 in California and then ruined a few years later in Finland. This is the point I should have stopped working on it! Oil on canvas 36 x28cm
Just cut down, re-stretched and finished this painting I’d started a couple of years ago. The original dimensions (originally twice the size) had always bothered me. It’s a portrait of a tree I see on a route that I like to hike in Sipoo National Park, just north of Helsinki.
Scots Pine - 100 x 80cm oil on canvas 2025
Plusmiinus.3 opens next Friday at Uusikuva Gallery in Kotka, Finland. I’ll be showing new work alongside eight other artists from art collective Plusmiinus, a multinational group of artists from France, Sweden, Finland and the UK.
Exhibiting artists: Juha Forss, Mirka Hämälainen, Kimmo Kumela, Heidi Lahtinen, Jaakko Leeve, Robin Lindqvist, Nelly Toussaint, Sini Havukainen.
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