Leena Hannonen · Finnish-born artist
Put something on your wall worth stopping for.
Wild horses, restless oceans, ancient sea turtles. Original paintings, glass mosaics, fine-art prints, and books for people who appreciate a little humor.
Not painted to match the sofa. Not written to please everyone.
Background: Becoming the Storm. Original sold. Print available, 16 x 20 in.
Leena Hannonen
Finnish-born artist
Put something on your wall worth stopping for.
Wild horses, restless oceans, ancient sea turtles. Original paintings, glass mosaics, fine-art prints, and books for people who appreciate a little humor.
Not painted to match the sofa. Not written to please everyone.
Background: Becoming the Storm. Original sold. Print available, 16 x 20 in.
The artist
I paint what I couldn't leave inside.
I’m Finnish. That explains more than it should.
It started with a six-inch brush. I was twelve when I asked my dad for a giant roll of craft paper, moved the furniture out of my room, taped paper across three walls, put on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and painted my first triptych for five straight hours. I disappeared into it. I still do.
Before I painted for myself, I ran a design studio in Los Angeles. It was a good career. Eventually, it wasn’t enough. So I painted: horses that move without permission, oceans that refuse to stay still, wild gardens and ancient creatures built to survive.
Today I paint between San Diego and the Sea of Cortez.
40+ Years Creating
Painting, glass mosaics and bronze
A Lifelong Obsession with Motion
Horses, oceans, storms, turtles, and the wild in all of us
Also an Author
Memoir, how-to guides and a little comic relief
New · Larger 8.5 × 11 Edition
Some days, deep breathing isn't enough.
Some days, it’s the other person who should be breathing. Quietly. Somewhere else.
The meeting that should have been an email. The person on speakerphone in public. The shopping cart abandoned six feet from the return. And somehow, you’re the one who needs to calm down. So I made a coloring book about it.
Color Before Responding™ gives you 30 irritatingly familiar situations, each with a little humor, a place to write what you’re actually thinking, and an illustration to color while you reconsider your response.
No affirmations. No forced gratitude. Just a chance to laugh at the ridiculous things people do before you say something you’ll regret.
Write it. Color it. Get over it.
More room to color. Same amount of stupidity.
8.5 × 11 paperback | 64 pages | 30 write-in and coloring spreads
$16.95 · Free shipping
Original paintings
Paintings
Some walls need more than decoration.
Wild horses, restless oceans, impossible gardens and ancient creatures. Original paintings about movement, resilience and the natural world.
Made to hold your attention, not match your furniture.
Glass mosaics
Mosaics
Some ideas need to be broken first.
Glass, color, light and hundreds of hand-cut pieces becoming something they couldn’t become alone. From intimate works to large-scale installations, mosaics have been part of my work for decades.
Every piece placed by hand.