Eesti kunsti oksjonid

Oil on canvas. 2025.
Signature: LÖ25 / LIISI ÖRD “MÄNNID. VALGUS” 2025 ÕLI LÕUENDIL

“Then there was a pine forest and rough bark
And sandhill cranes, sticky resin
The sun set. The taste of milk chocolate.
“We must have been terribly young.”

Excerpt from Doris Kareva’s poem “Borders”

Liisi Örd (b. 1984) paints dreams and reality. First of all, her own, but also that of her great-grandmother who also had a great desire, passion and calling to study painting, but time and opportunities did not favor it. Thus, Örd, who graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in painting, fulfills that timeless mission and calling today. With dense and embossed layers of paint, she creates emotional, enchantingly captivating atmospheres, conveying the primitive and timeless nature of the Estonian landscape, a deep sense of nature, silence and light, and the states of nature and her own soul, which are carried into every stroke of the brush and spatula.

Örd’s sculptural brushwork is instantly recognizable to any admirer of her work. The motif depicted in the paintings is often familiar, made sacred by Örd’s touch, her sensitive artistic eye. In this work, viewed from below, she also involves the viewer in an experience of light, dominated by a light blue cloudless sky, pine tree tops gilded by the sun, and sunspots playing on slender trunks.

A slowly completed painting has recorded the time, emotion and energy invested in it. In order for all its enchantment and charm to unfold, looking at the painting also takes time. Then the beauty and the charm of being in the moment unfolds here. While Jüssi conveyed nature through words, the photographic eye and gentle peace, Örd philosophizes with motifs and colours, brush and spatula strokes. Layer by layer, landscapes that are at once universal and timeless, on the other hand personal and generational, suggestively meditative, appear. However, the pleasure of the charming Estonian summer is guaranteed with this work at any time.

Text: Regina Mets