Ilona's Street Wise Boy

The scale of his works can range from a small note to a nine-metre diary watercolour or from a pocket-sized painting to a three-metre panorama of the throbbing city night.

When considering Janne Räisänen's paintings, one cannot see behind the corner. A surprise will no doubt be waiting there. These works combine in a strange way momentariness – the moments of experience and painting – with permanence – the enduring nature of the uttered word, the painted line.