Paula Pasanen Fiber Artist
Custom Textile Artworks
I welcome commissions for cityscape-based textile artworks. Pieces can be developed around a specific color palette or inspired by a particular location. For cityscape commissions, please provide a clear photograph of the area, which serves as the foundation for my interpretation through color, texture, and form. Do get in touch: paulapasanenstudio@gmail.com
My name is Paula Pasanen. I was born in Helsinki, Finland, and spent much of my life living abroad before returning to Finland in 2024. Moving between places, cultures, and memories has deeply influenced my artistic practice.
Working from my studio in Meilahti, Helsinki, I create fiber art using natural fibers such as wool and cotton. My work is strongly shaped by synesthesia, where memories and emotions are experienced through color. Colors play a central role in my practice, allowing me to reimagine places, landscapes, and cityscapes through a personal lens. Inspired by memory, lived experience, and a sense of playfulness, I use texture, form, and color to create works that explore the connection between past and present.
Intro to artist
Recent work
Happiness
Size: 117 x 71cm
Material: 100% Wool
Year: 2026
Happiness is an abstract textile work that explores the fleeting and ever-changing nature of joy. Inspired by the way emotions are experienced through color, the piece depicts happiness as a luminous current flowing through space like a river of northern lights—both tangible and constantly in motion.
Rather than representing a fixed moment, the work seeks to capture the sensation of happiness itself: elusive, fluid, and difficult to hold onto. Like waves passing through the body, the colors shift and intertwine, creating a sense of movement and energy that invites contemplation and personal interpretation.
Guided by synesthesia, color becomes a language for emotion. Vibrant hues of yellow and rhythmic wavelike forms reflect the dynamic nature of happiness, revealing it not as a destination but as an experience that ebbs, flows, and transforms over time.
The piece combines a variety of textile techniques, including cut and loop pile tufting alongside a contemporary knotting method developed within my studio practice. Together, these processes create rich tactile surfaces and sculptural elements that encourage both visual and sensory engagement, emphasizing the material presence of the work.
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