Maiden with Her Orchids - Limited Edition 1 of 5 Artwork by Mirja Nuutinen

New Media: Photo, Manipulated, Digital, Color, C-type on Paper.

Digitally manipulated photos and hand paintings in collage. One of the series Gardener's Dreams. My photos together with my watercolour paintings.

- limited edition
- five hand signed editions
- paper Hahnemühle Photo Rag 188 g/m2 (100 % cotton)
- Inks HDR Ultrachrome pigment inks
- museum quality

I've been working with my Dream -series since 2006. My first Dream series was Archaic Dreams. After that came Urban and Space Dreams and some smaller series like Animal- and Finnish Dreams.

I started the Gardener's Dreams series just couple of years ago - when I began to archive photographs of the period of 20 years. I found so many useful photos of flowers and plants, that I couldn't just leave them on the archives.

After this dreamy stuff - almost seemingly too beautiful to be my art stuff - I will stop all the series under the title Dreams.

I have waken up now and I know very clearly what kind of art is coming next from me.

The idea of my Dream series was to challenge my photography skills together with my paintings using photo manipulation. The themes I've used in my art works have been changing from ancient art especially Norhern rock art motives, space, animals and finally plants, particularly flowers together with my paintings, drawings etc.

I've had several exhibitions in Dream series as you can see fro my exhibition list from the Profile page.