Exhibition in Rauma Art Museum

 I'm very happy and delighted to be part of the group exhibition Fish and Fowl! in Rauma Art Museum. I made a huge, 16m2, painting by comission for this exhibition. The painting is the biggest I have ever made this far. It took three visits to Rauma and several hours. I painted it on the floor on eight pieces first with the primer and then with exterior paint. The pieces were put together and the whole artwork was lift up on the outside wall of the museum backyard entrance.

Song of Seashell Birds is a creation story: these birds look like shells, they are guide animals between the worlds, air and water. They deliver the message and create new life, the birds are weaving the whorl of life and human is being born in the center of the whorl.

The painting process was very meaningfull and meditative for me. I was painting this in the silence and enjoyed of the lonelyness of my thoughts and the firgures that appeared with wild and free motion on the board. Also the milieu of the art museum is very beautiful and serene: the buildings are very old and the whole area gives a feeling of getting back in time. In a way I feel too like traveling between the worlds.

It was wonderful t see the result, it looks even bigger on the wall than on the floor when I was making it. I'm very proud of this painting and the good feedback. The seashell birds will fly on the wall for a long time, because the exhibition is open untill 29th October.

There are also three different postcards and little posters of the painting for sale in Rauma Art Museum.

Song of Seashell Birds, 16m2, painting by comission for Rauma Art Museum exhibition
Fish and Fowl! 2023

K. Tschährä and Song of Seashell Birds. Photo: Jari Sorjonen / Rauma Art Museum.

Song of Seashell Birds seen from the entrance to the museum's backyard.

Painting seen from Rauma Art Museum's backyard.