After her earlier works depicting the most important stages of a woman’s life, Finnish-born painter Maria B. Raunio has in the last few years turned her attention to the natural landscape. Her landscapes are a kind of memorial, a landscape of the soul, with which she conveys emotions and states of mind.
Maria brings to the canvas fragments of landscape, which become increasingly abstracted, almost dissolving in the airy or watery background, evoking the atmosphere of the landscape experience.
In some of his paintings, the artist creates surfaces reminiscent of plant details, where the forms are no longer so concrete, but rather refer to shapes found in nature, evoking various associations in the viewer. In addition to his travels, the Finnish landscape and environment in which he grew up is still a significant part of his visual culture.