Painter Marja-Liisa Torniainen, artist's statement

LIFE IS A DREAM

As an artist I am working with colours. Everything connected with colours is the object of my unquenchable passion, from their material composition, even the words describing them - to those reachable to me spiritual sphares.
I do not avoid to face ugly and awful things, but my starting point in painting is the living beauty of our Universe manifesting itself everywhere around us. The scale of my colours is large from heavy and strong colour relationships to very sensitive colour talking.

Concretely my works are often big oil paintings, which together may build walls of many, many meters. My painting techniques varies, but characteristic to me is surface with strong material structure.

Sensuousness is one part of my works, because: if we have no senses, we have no sense - and our life on this planet is nonsense. Purified senses are also doorways to heaven.

I do paint with watercolours, too. I do draw, I do write. My photographs You can see on the their own pages.

To see the eternal essence beyond the object is the main thing and the most difficult thing in art and life generally. So, to me it is not a relevant question is the art figurative or abstract; the Universe includes many levels which are visually difference and the Absolut Beauty is the most internal content of all existence.

I hope my works have a positive influence on the human mind. They have made to strengthen, purify and to give joy of life.

"Life is a dream", Play of Pedro Calderon, who was living in1600-1681.