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About
Valentina Palonen is a Finnish-Australian visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice draws on colour, intuitive impulses and automatic drawing to express affective experiences of the world. Embracing a fluid approach to painting, she invites spontaneous forms to emerge from her subconscious overlaying the mythological, psychological and experiential.
“ I channel every subtle impulse without forethought in a manner of automatic painting. These aesthetic impulses come to me and my hand conveys them directly onto the canvas’s surface without editing. Forms appear and dissolve at their own discretion. I do not believe in mistakes, only marks to which I can respond and build upon. I have named this process The Collaboration. As such I can no longer consider myself to be the sole maker of my work, but rather view it as a collaboration – in its purest, and also its most expanded sense - a collaboration with the universe, an omnipotent force which feeds me ideas and impulses when I quiet my mind and allow it to seep in.”
- Excerpt from artist statement 2023