Summer is here and I'm in love

Saturday evening, friends and barbeque. My absolutely favourite food during the summer time is halloumi with red pepper! Oh I would like to spend all my evenings like this, watching the sun go down and welcoming the white, nightless night without worrying about tomorrow's wake-up.

We were in Paris

Easter in Paris. Seems that I was more interested in looking around with my own bare eyes than through the lens... But here's a sneak peek anyway. A five-day-trip was just a scratch on the surface, but at least we got a tiny inkling of the athmosphere. We had our most expensive beers so far in Le Select, visited de Beauvoir and Sartre in the graveyard of Montparnasse, sipped white wine on our tiny balcony in Montmartre and had onion soup and crème brûlée. Those green pictures above are from Marie-Antoinettes estate in Versailles - one of my favourites, like an oasis after all the city noise.

Simply amazed

Actually I've been simply amazed about various things lately, 

not to mention the political situation around here... 

Well, it's spring and springs I love.

At the Studio

It's been rainy or foggy for most of the week, 

but today I finally had a chance to wear my 

new spring shoes. Oh how light they were! 

A new painting in progress abowe. Would be 

great to document the painting process more

 carefully but I always seem to get too carried

 away with it to consentrate on anything else.

Busy as a magpie

Signs of spring... Patches of grass on the ground, 

water pouring from the drainpipe, lighter coats 

in town - or your calendar filling up with to-dos

and deadlines. I noticed that someone else in the

 neighbourhood is busy too!

Lambada

2011

acrylic and oil on canvas

about 85 x 160 cm

The Big Nightingale

I finally got my piece of Maija Louekari's design. 

I actually bought that fabric last summer, but it 

took me this long to get my good old sewing machine 

back home from school (as it's mostly made of metal 

it's quite a nice one to carry around in town and 

in the bus...) A dream for the summer would be a long 

curtain of Louekari's print Kaiku - Echo.