Bio

Sanna Rastas grew up in Finland surrounded by art. Her father was a painter and musician, her grandmother an artist. The smell of fresh paint and small oil color tubes are her earliest memories of home.

Creativity was always part of her, like a birthmark. She drew portraits and figures with charcoal and pastel, studied at the school of handicrafts and applied arts, and spent years working as a set designer in film, TV and theater, as well as a grand piano builder. Building worlds for others before finding her own. It was only as an adult that she discovered acrylic paint, and with it, abstract art.

She moved to Germany, Hamburg in 2012, and that is where everything changed.

Her path to painting was not a straight line. She burned out, lost her direction and had to stop. That stillness became the beginning of something else. Painting became a way to process, to understand herself, and eventually a language she could not live without. Her work is connected to spirituality and the human experience. Some pieces emerge through Akashic Records, others more intuitively from her own observations of the human experience. Over time, art became a spiritual language.

Today Sanna works as a full time artist in Hamburg. Her paintings are collected internationally.