My name is Päivi Kukkasniemi, ans I'm a visual artist from Finland, and the teacher of these online art courses.

My English is not perfect, but I have not translated the courses myself, my sister's daughter Sofia has helped me.

I have been painting exhibitions over 20 years, and I have studied art in three schools, and now I want to share it for you.

Painting is very important to me, when I was younger, speaking was difficult to me, so I found colors as my expression. Nowadays I feel that art is my listener when I paint.

Painting is also very meditative, it calms the mind.