PAINTING

The visual expression of the landscape makes Hannu
Sillanpää paint mental images and emotional responses from the mystery on Nature. A human does not undertand nature and cannot compete whit it.

We have to have light if one is able to see colours. In Finland the summer is short, in autumn the colours get more near gray.

"April is cruelest of the Months", said poet T.S Eliot. That means: the temperature of the light is getting warmer and colours get clearer. The first flowers appear.

My landcapes "does not exist" in nature. It is only in my mind. When I paint I remember many places where I have been. I think I have "an mental eye" and that guide my working. Also after I have stopped the painting I notice: there is often something familiar to be seen in the result.