Paula Pitkänen is a painter and graphic designer from Finland. She's also teaching art, but above all she's a single mom for three dear children. For Paula art is a way of life and home of the soul.
The desire to eventually become a professional artist was evident from the moment she first picked up a brush, and it was with this in mind that her first works were born already at the age of 12. She has run several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Finland and other European countries. Her technique primarly involves acrylic painting on canvas or recycled plexiglass, incorporating materials such as sand and recycled materials into her works. In addition, she creates graphics and paints aquarelles.
Paula's way of painting is expressive and guided by intuition. Art talks to her and brings up topics from the subconscious, pages of magazines, people's lips, looks, gestures, dimensions of the universe and the lives of her children, mixing everything and eventually forming balance and peace. Key elements of her works include spiritual growth, well-being, femininity and masculinity, motherhood, sensitivity, nature and universality, which she often turns visible in human faces. Their expressions reveal something that is difficult to put into words but brings about some hope for a better world.