The Finnish artist Liisa Rautiainen convinced me to start painting in 2004. When I later needed to find out whether to become a painter or not, I decided to paint 100 pictures to find it out that way. I then became a painter and moved to Keminmaa to learn painting from Liisa, and I opened a gallery called Mikä Maku Artworld. I usually paint around 450 paintings a year, every year, and still take a lot of photographs as well.