Susanne Broända ISKMO, FINLAND in World Art Guide 2023 by Bellamonti Art

Susanne Broända is an active artist from Finland whose art can be described as a mixture of dreams and wakefulness. Her way of using colours and clear imagery invites you as a viewer to a world of mirrors and windows. Through her art, you get an opportunity to reflect inwards and meet your inner world or turn your gaze outwards and observe what meets you there. In an unforced way, her colour choices and motifs create a subtle invitation for you to rest in the moment as well as to develop and learn from what her art evokes within you. The language of colours and images may at first trick you into thinking that what you see is what you get, but if you allow yourself to stop and look, you will notice that something is starting to happen inside.

The background to her creations is, as she describes it, an alternative spiritual view of life. Since the artist’s earliest childhood, she has felt a strong connection with animals, nature, and the energy of life. She uses her sensitivity to energies as one of her tools in her painting. The great sources of inspiration are the inner personal development, the mysterious and nature, and a motif that is particularly characteristic of Broända are birds.

Due to health challenges that began around the age of 30, her creations and techniques have been adjusted gradually. Today, she is limited in her painting, both in how she can hold on to her brushes and in how long she can work at a time. Despite this, she has continued to work with her art. Broända always has a painting going on in her head, and she can’t imagine a life without her colours and worlds, which she puts down on paper or canvas.

• 2023 Group exhibition, ”Messages of The Birds II”, Stundar’s Museum and Centre of Culture and Art, Solf, Finland

• 2022 Group exhibition, ”Winter Art”, Hammarö Art Gallery, Hammarö, Sweden

• 2022 Solo exhibition, ”Messages of The Birds”, City Hall Gallery, Nykarleby, Finland

• 2021 Solo exhibition, “Journey | Resa | Matka”, Vaasa Market Hall, Vaasa, Finland

• 2020 Group exhibition, “Österbottniska Konstföreningars Samutställning Nr 6”, Art Gallery Torni, Vaasa, Finland susanne.broanda@gmail.com www.susannebroanda.com

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