Paula’s work is mainly inspired by a child’s imagination, which turns common things magical and makes the proportions of the world change over time. With her Assorted Flavours series, she aims to explore the happy feeling of urgency caused by a melting ice cream. The same feeling comes with the glassmaking process but with the temperature reversed. For her, hand blowing glass is a mesmerising and surprising game of colour and form; the colours reacting to one another and to the shape in an unexpected way.
Height 30 cm
Width 15 cm
Depth 6 cm
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Paula Pääkkönen
- Glassblower
- Nuutajärvi, Finland
- Rising Star
Contact
Finnish, English
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
Phone:
+358 408417137
+358 408417137
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Making magic in glass
- • Paula prioritises instinct over technical superiority
- • Her series Assorted Flavours was inspired by ice cream popsicles
- • She uses her skills to help other designers and artists
“Tradition is the base from which I work. Innovation, for me, means finding new ways of applying these techniques and being open to straying from what has been considered the only right way.” That is how Paula Pääkkönen describes her work. No wonder she has decided to study and then settle down at the Nuutajärvi Glass Village, a community of like-minded people. Her infatuation with glass started in 2010 during her degree studies. What mesmerised her was the heat, intensity and quick pace of the glassblowing process. But, in her work today, technically immaculate pieces are not quite what she is aiming for. Instead, she is aiming to find the balance between technical excellence and capturing a fleeting moment, a feeling about something that is hard to define: magic.
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Photo: © Hannakaisa Pekkala
Plum Whirl, Assorted Flavours series
Photo: © Hannakaisa Pekkala
Pear & Kiwi, Assorted Flavours series
Paula’s work is mainly inspired by a child’s imagination, which turns common things magical and makes the proportions of the world change over time. With her Assorted Flavours series, she aims to explore the happy feeling of urgency caused by a melting ice cream. The same feeling comes with the glassmaking process but with the temperature reversed. For her, hand blowing glass is a mesmerising and surprising game of colour and form; the colours reacting to one another and to the shape in an unexpected way.
Height 35 cm
Width 15 cm
Depth 7 cm
Photo: © Hannakaisa Pekkala
Peach & Fudge, Assorted Flavours series
Paula’s work is mainly inspired by a child’s imagination, which turns common things magical and makes the proportions of the world change over time. With her Assorted Flavours series, she aims to explore the happy feeling of urgency caused by a melting ice cream. The same feeling comes with the glassmaking process but with the temperature reversed. For her, hand blowing glass is a mesmerising and surprising game of colour and form; the colours reacting to one another and to the shape in an unexpected way.
Height 30 cm
Width 15 cm
Depth 6 cm
Photo: © Hannakaisa Pekkala
Peach Whirl, Assorted Flavours series
Paula’s work is mainly inspired by a child’s imagination, which turns common things magical and makes the proportions of the world change over time. With her Assorted Flavours series, she aims to explore the happy feeling of urgency caused by a melting ice cream. The same feeling comes with the glassmaking process but with the temperature reversed. For her, hand blowing glass is a mesmerising and surprising game of colour and form; the colours reacting to one another and to the shape in an unexpected way.
Height 30 cm
Width 15 cm
Depth 7 cm
Photo: © Hannakaisa Pekkala
Raspberry & Apricot, Assorted Flavours series
Paula’s work is mainly inspired by a child’s imagination, which turns common things magical and makes the proportions of the world change over time. With her Assorted Flavours series, she aims to explore the happy feeling of urgency caused by a melting ice cream. The same feeling comes with the glassmaking process but with the temperature reversed. For her, hand blowing glass is a mesmerising and surprising game of colour and form; the colours reacting to one another and to the shape in an unexpected way.
Height 30 cm
Width 15 cm
Depth 6 cm
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