Hi!
I am Heli Savila - a punch needle artist based in Helsinki. I like to create improvisational
abstract paintings with yarn.

Since the spring of 2018, I have been living in the punch needle world. First it started as a self-therapy method in a challenging time in my life. Pretty soon I understood that this creative language meant more to me. Punch needle is something I want to tie my life with and learn more and more about.

Almost everything that I create is improvisational. I am pretty impatient and creating that way is like going on an adventure - not knowing what comes out and relying on the materials to guide me. It all comes down to materials. How they make me feel, how they interact with each other. From that I choose the composition. I am always curious about transferring emotions with different materials. Questioning the terms like “beauty” and “mistake”. I even like to use materials that at first bring out negative emotions and work with them, using them in a way that in the end there is nothing negative left.
Also, mistakes are the cornerstone of my work. Making them, using them, working with and
around them.

I hope my work takes the viewers on an emotional journey the same way it takes me when I am creating it.