kahevahel

I have continued to explore the theme of giving throwaway wood a new life. This time, I decided to expand my way of working and instead of focusing on the pattern of woodgrain, my aim was to play with bright colours as a dreamlike backdrop to small landscape elements of the nature of my surroundings.

The landscape in Estonia is quite calm, there's a lot of open space and sometimes it can be a bit grim. Nevertheless, it makes me feel safe and at home and I wanted to bring this feeling through in my paintings. At the same time, the bold contrasting colours suggest perhaps a different place, which is unknown and somewhere else.

I am working around the notion of an ‘inbetween place’ that I have created with these paintings. The large areas of bold colours are a contrast to the sort of bleak bits of landscape. The illustrations are tiny compared to the rest of the painting because I wanted to emphasise the vast emptiness that we have in Estonia, which is becoming more rare in the world full of cities and mountains of waste.

The landscape elements that I have included in these paintings can be spotted on almost every journey and are a symbolic part of Estonian nature. Little minimalistic houses and trees, some animals and bogs.