I am a glass artist and designer. I make soulful objects for everyday life and large-scale works that ask larger questions — these two sides of my practice feed each other.

The same eye that finds beauty in a material also finds meaning in it.

KOTI-GALLERY OPENS

Selected works from Talventörröttäjät - Winter Sentinels exhibition at Katriina’s home:

19.4.2026 Sunday

13-15.00 

“Some art belongs in a gallery. Some art belongs in a home.”

Talventörröttäjät — Winter Sentinels — is the private exhibition of designer and glass artist Katriina Nuutinen. And now, a curated selection of her pieces has found its most natural setting yet: Katriina's own home.

The Northen concept of talventörröttäjät — those slender, frost-dusted plants that refuse to bow to winter, standing tall above the snow to scatter their seeds across the ice — is more than a botanical curiosity. The title piece reflects how a diverse matrix of different operators is stronger and more impactful together. There is quiet defiance in that idea. There is also beauty.

At first glance, winter plants appear as repulsive grey, brown, and blackened mummies of a bygone summer — but they have a story to tell. Nuutinen's work asks you to look again. To find the sculptural in the skeletal. To recognise that what endures through cold and darkness carries its own particular grace.

Seeing these works in a home rather than a formal exhibition space is no accident. It is an invitation. Art breathes differently between lived-in walls — it stops being something you observe and becomes something you inhabit. Here, each piece is both object and companion: a winter sentinel of its own, holding its ground through the season. Read more…

ART

• I repeatedly translate living or ecological systems into glass: not to illustrate nature, but to think through it — to make it strange enough to be seen again.

• Sustainability is not a frame I apply to this work; it is built into the material logic itself.

  “My purpose is to make visible: beauty not despite darkness, but within it.”

Design

• Strategic Product development from idea, concept, sketching, prototype to appealing products.

• Refining Visual Identity into a tailored Brand Experience plan.

“Rooted in my fruitful collaborations with exclusive design companies such as Japanese Apex, French Ligne Roset, Swedish Klong and Finnish Innolux, I remain dedicated to design that resonates on a global scale.”

Winter’s sentinels

This exhibition is rooted in both nature and cultural reflection. The dried, upright plant stems that remain standing through the cold and harsh season — serve as a poetic metaphor for artists and culture itself in this time. These are not things that always bloom brightly, but they hold vital seeds for the future.

The works in this series embody both fragility and strength — capturing the beauty and power found in vulnerability. Winter sentinels is a series of sculptures that explore the theme of hope and resilience through the delicate interplay of fragile materials. More…

17.1.-14.2.2026

Ikimetsägallery

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation

Sibeliuksenkatu 2, Hämeenlinna

Glass holds a moment,

permanent and luminous.

I translate living and ecological systems

into glass — to think through it, to make it

strange enough to be seen again.

In that stillness, I keep finding hope.