Exhibition of the month
Terapiaartis.fi is a free, safe and anonymous visual art platform that bring together artists who share common challenges with mental health.
The goal is to strengthen participants’ mental well-being, promote outsider art, raise awareness about the positive effects of art on well-being, and encourage discussions about mental health and its importance. If you want to organize your own visual art exhibition, please contact: info@terapiaartis.fi
Colour Conversations: Nature, Abstraction, Humanity
Paloma Bautista Sánchez
Colour is a language—one that speaks without words. In this exhibition, each artwork is part of an ongoing conversation between three realms: nature, abstraction, and humanity. Bold hues and layered textures become the voice that connects them, flowing from organic life to cultural identity to playful imagination.
Through vibrant monoprints, acrylic paintings, and fabric prints, the works reveal how colour holds emotion, rhythm, and meaning. Taken together, these pieces create an exhibition where colour does more than decorate—it communicates. It bridges inner and outer worlds, grounding us in lived experience while carrying us into spaces of wonder. Colour Conversations is both a visual dialogue and an invitation to listen differently: to see how colour itself speaks of life, play, and presence. Colour speaks. Listen with your eyes.
Paloma Bautista is a Finland-based visual artist and architect born in the Canary Islands. Art has been present in her life since childhood as her way of exploring and expressing her colourful inner world. Paloma understands art as a potent tool for evoking emotions, telling stories, and reflecting on cultural and historical contexts. Under her brand, Art by Pulu, Paloma blends art with activism to raise questions and create social awareness.
Shadow images
Kaih
The abstraction and multilayered nature of the paintings reflect the complexity of the landscape of the mind – its challenges, its mysteries, its ability to shape its own reality. Each viewer can interpret them through their own associations and experiences; they are merely symbols, keys that open doors to different interpretations, perspectives on reality and its structures – ways of processing and depicting the forces and currents that operate beneath the surface of the mind.
Kaih is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lahti, who at times hears things that do not exist. The collection consists of 40 ink/acrylic works on A4 paper from summer 2024.
The long way back home
Sami Liukkonen
Sami Liukkonen is a 46 year old helsinkian with late discovered AuDHD. Most of the works in this exhibit were created during a depression 2020-2025 and the subject matter is dualism of the mind.
The life experience on the AuDHD spectrum is contradictory. There’s a strong internal need to experience as much as possible, to swim in the stream of life, but at the same time all senses and instincts are constantly awake, causing overload and paralysis. It is difficult to find one’s place in a neurotypical world; the colorful and lively essence must be dressed in gray clothes and wandering thoughts brought to heel to grind the gross domestic product.
The relationship and interplay of activity and passivity, cold and hot, order and chaos, the child and the parent, internal and external fascinates me. I identify with both sides, but at each moment one can only have a single point of view. What does order look like to chaos? Or how does chaos relate to order?
Recently I have worked intuitively: my art wells up from the fascinating dynamic of the phenomena of the mind – or life in general – but only when complete do the pieces start to reveal their secrets.
In the same cage
Jarno Latva-Nikkola
Jarno Latva-Nikkola is a visual artist who ended up in Siuro through many twists and turns. He has been publishing his darkly humorous and underground-inspired comics at an uneven pace since the late 90s.
In addition to comics, I have always made drawings and paintings, because making them is spontaneous and stress-free (hah!). When I am in front of paper and canvas, I have no idea what I will do, but the line and colors lead me in a certain direction. This makes the work meaningful, even if some of the final results are not successful in my opinion.
Hyvät Tuulet Association’s art exhibition
Collective exhibition
This is Hyvät Tuulet Association’s art exhibition.Our association operates in Vantaa, Finland and offers versatile activities and peer support for people recovering from mental health issues.In our visual arts groups there are opportunities to paint and draw, but creativity has no limits.
