"Fairy tale art swipes sweetly, brings emotions and creates memories that will last for generations in everyone's fairytale heart."
The story of Mural Fairy Tale Walls
“All of us walk on the ground, but some look at the stars.”
In 1997, I was a student mother of two small boys. We lived in a rented apartment in Vantaa, the walls of which were unbearably painter’s white – especially in the children’s room. Since I couldn’t afford beautiful wallpaper, I decided to paint the walls myself.
I knew I couldn’t fail, because all the versions would be better than the one I had. I asked the landlord for permission – and I got it.
This is how my first mural was born: a wildly beautiful traffic city, the likes of which no other little boy in the whole world has. Yippee!
That’s how it started…
The walls became fairy tales, and the fairy tales became walls.
(It’s a shame that there is no picture of that creation, because we lived before the time before digital).
Soon I was asked to paint other walls as well – exclusively for HopLops and also for kindergartens, libraries and children’s hospitals.
With the murals, I financed the growth of Tinttu.com’s children’s clothing brand without development and support money or external investors, which didn’t even exist at the time.
From 2001 onwards, I started painting larger and larger murals on my own.
They became wholes, magical worlds where story, colour and emotion went hand in hand – the kind where you can have fun, and where even an adult remembers again what it feels like when everything is possible.
A promise that changed everything.
In 2004, my child became seriously ill. In the hospital, in the midst of examinations and waiting, I made a promise to myself: if we survive this, I will transform these hospital facilities so that they will never again lack life, hope or love.
Back then, there were no smartphones, no tablets, no escapes from everyday life. There were just shabby mint-green hospital corridors endlessly.
When your own child falls ill, the world comes to a standstill. And then, if ever, a pinch of magic dust is just that little breath that takes your mind off what you don’t want to think about in life.
My child survived.
Since then , I have regularly irregularly painted large works of fairy tale art for charity all over Finland.
For me, this is not a business. It is a promise – and a value on which my life’s work is built.
Skilfully made murals are not just surfaces. They are encounters, memories, stories, emotions and magic – places that leave a mark on the heart.
Each work is different and requires its own language, rhythm and atmosphere. I always paint straight from my fairytale heart without copying anyone or anything.
I also never repeat myself directly twice, not even if the client wants it and the subject matter requires it.
Every story deserves to be seen as its unique self.
I could easily charge more than 50,000 euros per property for mural works, but I don’t. Because the most important thing is not the price, but where the magic can land. I want to paint even in the smallest towns and the most remote villages, so that not a single wall – not even where no one has ever heard of it – is forgotten.
That the magic would find its way to its destination. At just the right time, place and moment.
That’s why I make fairy tale art for fairy tale walls.
Today, my fairy tale paintings can be found in libraries, schools, kindergartens, maternity and child health clinics and hospitals all over Finland. Everyone is part of Pomenia’s story – a magical magical world where art, emotion and hope live on walls, colours and whispers.
A fairytale wall with a touch of magic dust is an opportunity to remember that magic has not disappeared anywhere – it was just waiting for the moment when someone dared to paint it into view.
