ACTRESS JYRKI NOUSIAEN, 3/2001
C PEKKA KUPAIREN/YHTYNEET KUVALEHDET OY/KUVA-ARKISTO
Actor Jyrki Nousiainen has focused more and more on painting in his retirement days. He has been heard from in public quite a bit lately, so daughter Saimi Nousiainen posted a lovely update on his account on Instagram.
– It was a wonderful, valuable day with my father in Helsinki. We talk every day, sometimes so much so that the times we go to bed are really messed up, but the most important thing is the time spent together face to face, says Saimi after meeting his father Jyrki in Helsinki.
According to Saim, Jyrki spends his time in Vaara, Punkaharju, during the time of the thaw, where he and his family have spent summers since at least the 1970s. Now, with aging and a change in his life situation, he spends more of his winter time in Helsinki, where Jyrki works as a pimp for the boys in the capital, meets his friends, goes for a swim in the cold pool and enjoys exhibitions and theater, and participates in the interesting discussions of Café Max’s ‘parliament’.
– All this keeps him energized, as he says himself. He’s enjoying himself. I’m happy about that.
Art is an important part of life
Visual arts have been an important part of Jyrk’s life and he has always been good at doing things with his hands.
– As a little boy, he built himself all kinds of gadgets, including big wings, because he wanted to learn to fly. “I’m flying”, he shouted and fell from the roof of the barn to the headland in the yard. Then he also followed his mother, my grandmother Evening Annik too painting. Grandma was talented and also dabbled in icon and porcelain painting.
According to Saim, Jyrki left for Helsinki at the age of 15 and started a goldsmith’s school with his manual skills.
– However, the doors of the Theater Academy quickly opened and he made his career as an actor, mime and one year also as a clown at Sirkus Finlandia. He has thrown himself.
– Painting and drawing have accompanied him throughout his life. Now retired, he paints every day, for hours. In Munkkiniemi, when I walked into his house, I walked to the exhibition and when my father didn’t see I shed a few quiet tears. The happiness that my father is still here, that he is inspired and creates something new reminds me again that you have to be curious about life, regardless of your life situation or age. Get confused by small miracles, says Saimi with a heart emoji.
– Many of you ask me how my father is doing. When I told him that I would make such a post updating his life, he said ‘Send warm greetings to everyone, it would be wonderful to see new people too. I’m just painting.
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Source: hymy.fi
