About me

My name is Karoliina Nurmela, also known as Landale which is a pen name I have been using since 1996.

I am Swedish, but currently live in Notts, UK.

I am mainly looking for homebased work, if possible, as I live in the small town of Retford and ATM I have no means of transportation. But if given good enough reasons to move, I will look into that.

Art is wonderful and I love working with it. I use the help of the computer in many of my works, “computers are there to help us!” as my art teacher once said. Quite a wonderful thing to hear from a older and well respected person in these modern times where people claim those who use computers can't actually create art without them. I love doing mashups of all sorts, combining computer with something hand drawn and so forth.

My biggest inspirations in terms of artists and novelists would be John Bauer, Hans Arnold, Shinichi Kameoka and Tove Janson, CS Lewis, Dianna Wynne Jones.

I went to an upper secondary school that concentrated on traditional arts, but I've been drawing, painting and illustrating for as long as I can renember. By no means can I say that I ain't self taught. I think everyone's self taught in the end.