ABOUT MELINDA BLOMMA
b. 1981
Melinda Blomma creates works that invite calm, presence, and gentleness. Her practice explores invisible connections between beings, memory, and inner landscapes, through simple materials and slow, attentive gestures.
She works with both natural elements — stones, threads, wood — and fluid washes of ink and acrylic mixed with water. Though these mediums may appear different, they converge in a shared pursuit: balance, space, and a sense of inhabitable silence. Each piece is composed with restraint, allowing room for breath and for what remains unspoken.
Nature plays a central role in her universe. The shores of Lake Geneva, mountain landscapes, open horizons, and shifting light shape her gaze. She is also deeply influenced by northern landscapes — Finland, her mother’s country of origin, the Åland archipelago, and Iceland — whose raw strength, stillness, and clarity permeate her work. These vast, pared-down environments infuse her pieces with a sense of space, slowness, and inner depth.
Creating is, for her, a meditative state. Whether working with stones or with fluid washes, the gesture is guided as much by intuition as by a search for harmony. She works slowly and attentively, allowing forms to emerge rather than forcing them. Her work seeks less to represent than to be felt, less to narrate than to open a space.
Many people speak of a feeling of calm when encountering her work — a sense of inner peace, safety, sometimes a quiet, wordless emotion. Melinda Blomma’s art does not seek to shock or explain. It offers a refuge, an inner place where one can rest, reconnect, and simply be.
Her work is a search for peace.
And a way of sharing it.
ARTIST CV
Selected Chapters
2015
The First Birds
The first works combining stones and lines emerge. Birds resting on wires become an intuitive language, a point of grounding, and the beginning of a recognizable poetic universe.
2016-2018
Silent Connections
Development of minimalist scenes exploring connection, family, and presence. First exhibitions and public sales. The works begin to find their place in private interiors.
2019-2022
Families, Absence & Invisible Bonds
Creation of numerous commissioned works, often connected to memory, loss, and unseen love. This period marks a deepening of the emotional and symbolic dimension of the work.
2023
Migration
The emergence and affirmation of the Migration series, which becomes central to the artist’s practice. Birds multiply, the gesture turns meditative, repetitive, almost ritualistic. This series opens a space of freedom and release within the creative process.
2024
Expansion & New Dialogues
Growing international visibility brings the work into homes around the world. At the same time, new mediums are explored — ink and acrylic washes — opening a more abstract dialogue with movement, water, and breath.
2025
Ongoing Exploration
A continued hybrid practice where stone-based works and more fluid pictorial compositions coexist. Both approaches nourish one another, united by a shared search for peace, presence, and inner balance.
As an artist, I am drawn to what is quiet and essential.
I create with simple materials and slow gestures, in search of balance, poetic presence, and inner peace.
My work is a place to pause — a refuge shaped by matter, light, and intuition.
Through breath, rhythm, and the slowness of the gesture, I seek to make the invisible felt and to offer a sense of calm, connection, and safety.”
