My ceramic practice is an exploration of material, memory, and transformation. I work primarily with stoneware and porcelain, drawn to the dual qualities of strength and fragility they embody. Through hand-building, throwing, and surface experimentation, I seek to create works that feel both contemporary and ancient — objects that resonate with history while carrying the imprint of my own touch.
Hand-building remains my most intuitive process, allowing me to shape forms slowly, rhythmically, and with freedom. I also turn to the wheel, where repetition becomes a meditative act, offering stillness and balance. Glazing, once the part of making I felt most resistant towards, has become a central focus. I now embrace the interplay between glaze chemistry and kiln unpredictability, finding energy in the tension between control and chance. The moment of opening the kiln — never knowing quite what will emerge — remains one of the most exhilarating and humbling aspects of the practice.
Surface has become a site of deep experimentation. I work with slips, oxides, and increasingly with coiled porcelain, embedding colour directly into the clay body. This process allows me to create layered, tactile surfaces that suggest age, erosion, or hidden histories.
My Finnish roots shape my practice as much as the material itself. I draw inspiration from northern landscapes, folklore, and the quiet austerity of Finnish design — where simplicity often carries depth, and restraint reveals power. There is a rawness in the natural world of Finland — its forests, rocks, lakes, and winters — that resonates with clay’s own elemental qualities of earth, water, and fire. Through my work, I explore this inheritance not through literal motifs but through atmosphere, form, and texture: pieces that carry whispers of ancestry, memory, and belonging.
Ultimately, my practice is a conversation between past and present, science and intuition, permanence and fragility. Each piece becomes an artifact of process, a record of touch and transformation. I hope my work evokes a sense of timelessness — as if unearthed from the past or discovered in the future — while quietly speaking of my own heritage and the universal human desire to connect with origins, place, and mystery.