Career
His expressive paintings engage with a variety of themes. Marila paints series of large canvases and works with themes from religious subjects by 16th century painters such as Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald. He has created dynamic self-portraits and maps, mainly of small industrial towns in Finland such as Mänttä and Riihimäki.
The role of material and painting gestures becomes more prominent when figurativeness and non-figurativeness are engaged in the large-scale canvases.
