Hello!
I’m Roosa, an aspiring full-time color pencil artist from Finland.
I started drawing with color pencils from the first moment I was able to hold a pencil in my hand. My family always encouraged me to draw so it became a natural part of my life early on.
I began to share my art with the world under the name “Rösseli” on Instagram in 2016. At the time I mainly drew portraits of my favourite pop-artists. Around 2020 I started to give more thought to my own voice as an artist and began to focus on drawing wildlife and wildflowers.
Despite having always dreamed of becoming a professional artist, I kept art as my hobby and instead became a Bachelor of Arts and Culture in Visual Design to work in advertisement, as I believed it to be the more realistic career option. Shortly after graduating and working as a graphic designer for a while, I realized that advertisement is a very competitive field which requires passion and hard work for one to succeed. After my first job contract ended in 2025, I found myself lacking the passion necessary for the job, so I began to rethink my life.
I found myself constantly thinking: if both advertising and art are going to be tough anyway, why not choose the one that sets my heart on fire. I finally gave myself the permission to give art my everything and see where it takes me. I stopped hiding behind my nickname “Rösseli” and began to sign my work with my own name. Now in 2026, I’m at the beginning of my journey to become a full-time artist.
Art is my connector. It helps me connect with myself and understand how I’m connected to nature, wilderness and the fellow beings living here.
We often refer to nature as something separate from us, but in reality we are all nature too. I’m not a scientist so my approach to this is more on the philosophical side. I like to find similarities to my own human emotions from the wilderness. People can sometimes make me feel like I’m not welcome or needed or my thoughts and feelings are too much or wrong. I feel like nature comforts the parts of me that human connections can’t always reach. For example, I feel deep relief when I see greenery take over human-built structures that have once pushed them away.
Another way I connect through my art is to learn about the fellow beings that we share our home planet with. I like taking the time to study the characteristics of the birds I’m drawing and draw them in a detailed way that isn’t necessarily scientifically accurate but more of an in-between of my idea or feeling of the bird and the reality. This is my way to connect with them and see how truly special even the most common-looking birds are when you take time to actually see them. I also like to use my art as a platform to showcase these birds in a truthful but also poetic and beautiful way which hopefully will help people understand that their lives are just as valuable as their own and should be therefore deeply respected.
As someone with hypersensitivity, I tend to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders. I find myself struggling with the concept of the human race trying to control anything and everything, especially when it comes at the expense of other forms of life. When I observe my surroundings through art, it comforts me to realize that no matter how much humans control and destroy the environment and other living beings with its actions, there’s one thing humans can’t fully control and that’s nature. It will always push through in some form even after humans are long gone.
I like to think of my artworks as love letters to life: I want to bring people closer to nature and help them understand that all life is special, valuable and worthy of deep respect, for it only happens once for the being that experiences it. I think it’s important now more than ever to reconnect with nature and realize we’re part of it and tied to all the living things in it, as we can sometimes get too self-absorbed by the things the modern world pushes on us. I believe it’s very healing to sometimes put your worries aside and take time to look up and focus on what’s outside: learn the names of the flowers on the side of the road, observe the birds that are nesting in your garden. I dearly hope that through my color pencil drawings, I can give you a piece of nature that inspires you to observe the life around you :)