About

Finya is an interdisciplinary artist based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She uses music and visual arts to explore herself and the intricacies of her emotions, and captures these in and extraordinarily personal, yet universal way.

Music

In her music Finya gently confronts her listener, by being open, vulnerable and radically honest about her struggles and experiences. 

She has been writing, recording, and producing her own music since she was fourteen. Her music has always been incredibly personal, exploring emotions and experiences that often go unspoken. She discovers what is okay to say about yourself, and finds comfort in the uncomfortable. Though her lyricism is beautifully raw, radically honest, and deceptively confrontational, the musical choices within her songs make even the heaviest feelings feel light.

With catchy melodies, surprisingly big choirs,  and intimate vocals and instrumentation, she draws listeners in, and provides them a bedding to look are their own heavy feelings, with that same lightness.

 

Painting

Finya is also has synesthesia. A phenomenon where multiple senses are linked with one another. For Finya, that means she physically sees colourful, moving shapes when she hears music or people's voices. Discovering not everyone has this, she started painting what she sees. Though not always entirely accurate with what she actually sees, these paintings have given her a way to communicate this experience to others.

 

Knitting and bookbinding

Aside from the musical aspect of her artistry, Finya also knits and binds books.

Her love for bookbinding started simply from a creative process; her brother's birthday was coming up, and as a gift she wrote him an allegorical fairy tale about his life. She was so inspired by this, that she started bookbinding just to be able to give him a physical copy. By now she has gifted many friends personalised books, and does commissioned work for handmade books.

Knitting started after seeing someone's handmade sweater. Her very first sweater was done within a week, and she couldn't stop. Her biggest project to date is a colour-work sweater that consists of almost 50 different patterned tiles, all knitted together.