Greta Granö

Greta Granö (b. 2001) is a multidisciplinary artist from Finland. She channels her creativity through writing and playing music, dancing, collage, poetry, and other forms of expression. Her artwork is a reflection of her emotions and inner world, expressing her struggles, hopes, imagination, and childlike wonder. She utilises her artwork and creativity in her activism, bringing awareness to queer, disabled, environmental, and human rights issues.

Greta founded A Quiet Storm to raise awareness of Severe ME/CFS and create a place for those affected to share their artwork.

I got sick with ME when I was 14, and my illness turned severe at 16. This illness has changed my life. I was an active child who loved going to school, played multiple instruments, wrote music and dreamt of an academic career. After first getting sick, I kept attending school until my symptoms became too debilitating and I lost my ability to walk and soon after that, the ability to sit up for more than 5-10 minutes at a time. My ME had turned severe.

ME/CFS is a debilitating illness at any severity, but I think there is something especially isolating when it becomes severe or very severe. It’s a specific type of suffering that I couldn’t possibly have imagined before getting ill. It can feel like no one understands or hears you, at least it did to me, until you find other people who know this specific suffering too. I’m forever grateful for the community of people with severe ME, and I feel a desperate need to give back to these people as much as I just can.

—Greta Granö, 2025