Exhibition: Kristiina Nickel – Love in Nature

Paintings by Keuruu-based artist Kristiina Nickel are on display in the Lobby Gallery at Palvelukeskus Lehtiniemi. The exhibition features fifteen works, most of them made with acrylic paints, as well as a few watercolours. Through her colourful works, Nickel hopes to bring joy, warmth and a sunny mood to the cool days of autumn. Her paintings depict love in nature, which, she says, can be seen in many forms: flowers with their enchanting scents and shades, or the evening sun against the surface of the water. It is there in the patter of rain lulling someone into gentle sleep, in the meeting and first glance of a pair of foxes, and in a mother bear caring for her cubs. The main work in the exhibition is titled “Siiville” (“To the Wings”). It was created as she watched the swans migrate last autumn. She saw them gather together, prepare to leave and wait for favourable winds. Then the right day came, and they took to the skies, proud and strong. In their wake, a quiet bay on the lake remained.