Anu Penttinen knows her glass, as it is her medium of choice as an artist and she has a studio at the Nuutajärvi Glass Village. She is a graduate of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and her art reflects her interest in the phenomena and details of the urban environment. Maps, city streets, and transport – moving from place to place and location to location – have always fascinated her: “I filter out my visual world from concrete places and human activity, which can end up as abstracts for my glass pieces.” Her preference is for strong colours and clarity of form.

She says: “I decided to give my birds some humor and a personality all of their own. The working name for my collection was ‘Cartoon Chicks’, and I took my inspiration from the hand-crafted forms found in clay animation and tropical birds. I’m fascinated by the colors and very graphic shape and startling nature of tropical birds like toucans. Their strong beaks and very individual eyes provided the input for some of the most important details of my glass birds.”

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