About

I grew up in a small town on the west coast and moved to Helsinki to study graphic design. Postcards started as a way to keep in touch with my grandmother, who does not use e-mail; the first designs were painted at her kitchen table.

Today the studio is a corner of a shared workshop in Vallila. I still paint everything by hand, in gouache and watercolour, at the real size of the card. There is no zooming in, which keeps the scenes simple and honest.

The name comes from a family nickname for the old camera that travelled with us on every summer trip. Most of the scenes on this site were sketched on those trips.

How a card is made

1. A pencil sketch on location, usually in ten minutes before the light changes.
2. A gouache painting at 148 × 105 mm, back in the studio.
3. A careful scan and a small print run at a family-owned press in Espoo.
4. Signing, numbering and a note by hand before each card goes out.

Materials

300 gsm uncoated board, light-fast pigment inks, paper envelopes. Nothing is laminated, so the cards age softly, like the ones in a grandmother’s drawer.