Two woven wall rugs and an acrylic painting are hanging on a white wall under classroom lights and other paintings are on the floor, leaning against the wall. The two wall-hanging rugs (known as ryijy in Finnish) have abstracted flame and fire cloud shapes and colours. The painting depicts an abstracted tree in sparks and flames against a dark background.

A single acrylic painting hangs on a white wall under a suspended light. The painting imagery is of a skeletonised charred tree trunk and branches that is engulfed in yellow, orange, and red flames and flanked by grey smoke clouds. The flames are made up of layers of swirling lozenges.

Scenes from the open studio in Oulu at Theodorinpuisto.

#art #painting #ryijy #Oulu

A thick-pile, vertical, woven, wall-hanging rug hanging on a white gallery wall. The rug has a furry and pixelated look under the gallery spot lights. The composition is an abstracted depiction of flames and smoke on a purple and grey background. The flames are yellow, orange, and red and they are overlapping smoke pillars in blue, purple, and grey. The flames move from the bottom of the rug to the upper right corner. It is almost as if the flames are figure walking off the image to the right.

Day 19 #ArtAdventCalendar

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) V, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 93 cm x 79 cm, 2022 (Private collection)

#art #weaving #ryijy #TextileArt #AbstractWeaving #ContemporaryTextileArt #InspiredByNature

A hand-woven wall-hanging (rug) with thick wool pile in a flame and smoke cloud motif. The shapes overlap and curl up from the bottom of the rug, and there's an arching amorphous curling shape over the top of the rug in dark blue. The colours of the rug are teal, grey, light blue, blue-ish black, purple, violet, and snippets of pale pink.

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Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) VII, handknotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 98 cm x 79 cm, 2022

#ryijy #rya #weaving #ContemporaryTextiles #TextileArt #art

A thick-pile, woven, wall-hanging rug is hanging on a grey wall and has a raking beam of sunshine diagonally across its center. It is a multi-coloured rug with a central motif of an abstracted bonfire. There is a blurred mass of orange and red radiating from the centre of the composition, and it is surrounded by purple, blue, green, and pale yellow. It is almost like the bonfire is on a horizon line, with the red and purple on the top half mirrored by yellow, orange, green, and blue on the bottom.

It's delightful to see actual sunshine in the studio, but it also reminds me that I have to move the ryijy out of its path.

Vierailu menneisyyteen (vanha kokko) / Revisiting the Past (Old Bonfire), hand-knotted wool on cotton warp, 64 x 54 cm, 2019

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Ryijy, jossa on keskellä vaaleanvihreässä suorakulmiossa tyylitelty ahvenen kuva. Tummin värein tehdyt viivat reunustavat keskiosaa. Reunoilla on oransseja siksak-kuvioita ja kulmissa keltaisia tähtiä mustaa taustaa vasten.

Tuli kudottua ryijy!
I wove a ryijy!
#ryijy #kutominen #weaving

A thick-pile wall-hanging rug, known in Finnish as a ryijy, is hanging against a blindingly white wall. The rug is predominately a yellow-green composition, with clouds of blue, grey, and dark violet blending into central flame shapes in yellow and orange.

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Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) 2, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 108 cm x 75 cm, 2019 (private collection)
Photo credit: Seija Leskelä

#art #ryijy #rya #taideryijy #weaving

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Here's a time-lapse from 2022 as I was working on Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) 5, a traditional Finnish decorative rug called a ryijy (rya).

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Vertical thick-pile wallhanging (rug) depicting an abstracted flames and smoke clouds in solid colour shapes. The background colours are pale teal and warm grey overlaid with purple shapes on the bottom of the composition and yellow-green arcing flames reaching for the top. Dark green shapes are formed by overlapping green and teal shapes.

I'm thrilled that my most recent taideryijy (rya, wall hanging) is included in the Scanno X Taidemaalariliitto IV exhibition at the Scanno Showroom in Helsinki.

Untitled Fire Cloud (Pyrocumulus) IX, hand-knotted wool yarn on cotton warp, 98 cm x 79 cm, 2024

#weaving #art #ryijy

Uudessa huoneessa vähän kaikuu, tuli mieleen että ryijy seinälle olis kova.

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