Robert Pietarinen is a painter working nomadically, moving between places while carrying his practice with him.

Whether emerging from imagination, rooted in portraiture, or painted from life, the artist interprets each work through a colorful and expressive palette. His practice explores narrative ambiguity and painterly layering. Through a process of both addition and subtraction, he builds images that hover between figuration and abstraction.

The resulting scenes suggest inner landscapes and dreamlike spaces where memory, imagination, and emotion converge. Figures may fade and re-surface, and in some cases shelter and safe spaces emerge in resistance to human dissonance. His work gestures toward wonder, enchantment, and a resilience against strict rationality.