My Fair Ladies

This really is a house of ladies. I haven't noticed it before, but when I look around I see naked women all around me, on the walls, tables, floors... pictures, paintings, drawings, statues... Some of them are very old and a little broken but I like them just the way they are. Many of the figures are my father's old things which I have found here from the warehouse or the workshop shelves.

I always swore that my life would be different and my own but here I am making figures of my own in the same house and atelier... 

My father didn't like to paint or draw, so this charcoal drawing he made in 1957 is very precious to me. I asked him many times who this lady was, but he never told me.

I love this sweet, funny little girl made by Sakari Tohka in 1947. He was one of my father's teachers.

Maybe this is a desperate housewife from the fifties. It was made by Carl Wilhelms in 1950, who was famous of his little woman figures. He was married to a famous Finnish diva Ella Eronen, whose big grave monument my father made of bronze. The red glass lips I got from Marja Suna. We were both shopping at Stockmann's and she put her hand in her handbag and gave it to me. I was touched.

This poor lady has no left arm and she was hiding in the workshop. I saved her and I think she is really beautiful. It's one of my father's school works.

This is one of my new figures for a "fashion show" that will take place in our country house in Perniö next summer.

I started to make these fashion miniatures about ten years ago. I have used many different kind of materials and themes but I always make a "fashion show" where these figures stand on a catwalk. This figure is from the "Haute Couture" show from last summer. It's made of plaster of Paris and linen.

My father liked especially the heavy parts of sculpting. He casted all his works by himself from bronze and he was very good at it. This figure didn't work out so well so I got it.

This is the upper part of a casting model. Her legs are in our country house. You can clearly see the cast linings which I like very much. 

A lady lying on the stage where the living model was posing. I use it now as a table. It's got big drawers where you can store large papers. 

My father loved to mix different metals to get just the right color for the work. This figure has also very dark verdigris. 

This lovely bronze figure should be standing so you could also see her beautiful back but I haven't decided what kind of stand she should be on. There is no signature but I guess it was made by Sakari Tohka. The hand-made books are Synnöve Dickhoff's.

The bathroom beauty belonged to my mother. It's carved of some kind of stone, but I have no idea which kind.