Meet the artist & storyteller
Tiia Hurme
Where the seen and unseen meet.
I have always believed that the world still breathes — that in the hush of forest air, something ancient listens back.
My work is born from that silence. From light moving softly through pine branches, from stories that once travelled by word and wind.
I am a Finnish artist and storyteller who weaves together photography, poetry, and myth.
Each piece I create is an offering — a translation of the forest’s presence into image and word.
The process is slow and reverent. I listen first, and only then begin shaping what wishes to be seen.
Every photograph becomes a doorway: between the natural and the spiritual, the visible and the remembered.
A life of quiet craft.
I work from my home in Finland, surrounded by the same landscapes that inspire my art.
The printing of each artwork is entrusted to a master print house here in Helsinki — where every tone, texture, and detail is handled with patience and care.
Before an artwork leaves their hands, I make sure it carries a token of gratitude — a gesture of human presence in a world that moves too quickly.
To me, art is not an object to be owned, but a relationship to be tended.
Those who collect my work often tell me that it changes the feeling of their space — that the forest seems to follow them home, quietly.
Why I create.
Through my art, I wish to remind us of what we once knew:
that the earth is alive, and that stillness has its own kind of strength.
My hope is that my work offers a sense of calm and connection — a return to reverence, to care, to wonder.
If you have ever felt the hum beneath the moss or the pull of old stories, you are already part of this world I try to keep alive.