Mira Kurkiala - Artist

Nu finns små abstrakta originalmålningar tillgängliga!

Alla tavlor i denna serie med mindre originalmålningar är skapade med jordpigment. Stenar har plockats i och utanför Umeå, i fjälltrakterna och vid kusten utanför Trondheim i Norge. Det är små experimentella abstrakta målningar i mindre format, där naturens egna färger får möta det abstrakta uttrycket.

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Between Worlds is now available!

This series of paintings emerged during the transition from summer to autumn, a time when nature itself is in flux. The works explore the shift between movement and stillness, between the familiar and the new.

The first flowing layers were painted outdoors in an overgrown garden, surrounded by vegetation. The paintings include details such as flying geese, forest landscapes and a red gate. Symbols of transitions, a home and a new beginning.

The series is created in layers of acrylic and earth pigments, with touches of oil pastel and gold powder. All works are painted on linen canvas with transparent gesso, which gives the colors depth and a natural expression.

To the paintings
  • The hidden garden

    70x50 cm on linen canvas. Painted with acrylic paint, earth pigments and details with oil pastels, gold powder and charcoal.

  • Birch song

    100x80 cm on linen canvas. Painted with acrylic paint, earth pigments and details with oil pastels, gold powder and charcoal.

  • The space between

    70x50 cm on linen canvas. Painted with acrylic paint, earth pigments and details with oil pastels, gold powder and charcoal.

  • Where time rests

    100x80 cm on linen canvas. Painted with acrylic paint, earth pigments and details with oil pastels, gold powder and charcoal.

My online course "Colors of the Earth" has been released! Buy it today and get access to the course immediately!

"The Colors of the Earth" is a creative online course, completely remotely, where you will learn how to create your own colors from nature. Using soil, stone, ash, sand and other natural materials, we will go step by step from pigment hunting to a finished abstract painting - and everything in between.

This is a course for those of you who long to get closer to nature, create with your hands and discover a more sustainable, slow and meaningful artistic process, or for those of you who just want to try something completely new!

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Paintings of natural pigments

I pick stones, earth, clay, charcoal and ash to create my own pigments for my paintings.

I work the stones with hammer, mortar and sieve the powder until it is fine enough to use as pigment for paint. I then add a binder and the millions of old stones are given new life as color in my art.

See paintings here!
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