Johanna Sipilä “For Swayers, Sighers, Cooers”

On Wednesday, January 14 at 5 PM a painting exhibition by Johanna Sipilä titled “For Swayers, Sighers, Cooers” will open at Pärnu Artists’ House gallery. You are welcome to attend!

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song!”  –  Maya Angelou (American civil rights activist and writer)

Painting is like singing to the birds – an activity beyond words, a strange inner monologue. A painting can be a wingbeat, a fleeting moment, the power and beauty of movement. It is cooing, calling, chirping and warbling; something unknown, leaping and unbound. 

A painting pants, sways and sighs – and it also contains silence.

The setting of this exhibition’s paintings is the natural forest and love. The works are inspired by conversations with friends, music, poetry, and the everyday beauty of nature.

Johanna Sipilä (born 1976) lives and works in Nuuksio, Finland. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts (2007) and a Master of Arts degree from Aalto University (2023). She has also studied painting at the Free Art School in Helsinki for three years. Sipilä’s oil paintings are inspired by walking and spending time in the natural forests near her studio in all seasons, her own movement and the movement of nature, and her observations and thoughts in the forest. In the act of painting and throughout the entire artistic process she seeks the same primitivity, airiness and wild instinctiveness as in nature.

Thanks:
The Finnish Cultural Foundation, friends, spouse and Pärnu City Gallery.

Contact information:

www.johannasipila.com

sipila.johanna@gmail.com

Instagram: jojohannasipila

After the opening of the exhibition “For Swayers, Sighers, Cooers”, an exhibition by Elisa Ritsing titled “COVERED” will be opened in the project space of Pärnu Artists' House at 5.30 PM.

Admission to all Pärnu City Gallery exhibitions is free.

Pärnu City Gallery opening hours: Tue–Fri 11:00–17:00, Sat 11:00–14:00 (closed on public holidays)