Reverie Fair Magazine | Page 24

It was no surprise to learn that Kaia’s art is inspired and influenced by nature. We asked her for photos of her home. The images she sent show tall forests reaching to the water’s edge and smooth boulders rising from tranquil shallows. The artist who created our Blue Urchin paintings lives in a country that has miles of seashore, but it is not tropical. Kaia is from Estonia, a peninsular country that reaches northward into the Baltic Sea. Finland and Sweden are her neighbors to the north, Latvia and Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east. She is an artist in a land of midnight sun and polar nights. We who do not live there might assume that the colors of nature in a country so far from the Equator would be cool, like its climate. The deep blues of her paintings may be inspired by her night skies, or the northern lights. It really doesn’t matter, but wondering about it adds to our enjoyment of her artwork.