{"id":302,"date":"2020-12-16T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T08:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vvalima.com\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2021-12-24T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T08:28:46","slug":"taiteestani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vvalima.com\/en\/taiteestani\/","title":{"rendered":"About my art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My paintings come about slowly, building layer upon layer. Much like a metaphor, they\ndon\u2019t unpack fully when put into words. What emerges, rather than a single story, is a\ncollection of overlapping stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

In all my paintings I aim to create interesting surfaces and colour harmonies. I tend to move\nsomewhere between the figurative and the abstract while also balancing between detailed\ntechniques and more broad, atmospheric washes of colour. I primarily paint with brushes but\nalso use printing techniques to create different kinds of organic textures.<\/p>

For inspiration I mostly turn to human beings and nature. My current paintings depict constellations of different kinds of organic shapes. These paintings examine the material processes called \u201dlife\u201d and the boundary between living and non-living matter. As a motif living processes fascinate me because of their ambiguous nature: they are easy to understand at the practical level, but very hard to define philosophically.<\/p>

The surfaces in my paintings are mostly created by layering, which means they also need time\nto dry in between. This gives the paintings room to breathe \u2014 and I get an opportunity to let go\nof them, and to see them afresh as I return to them. I find that this slow process produces\npaintings that reward revisiting and provide ample ground for the viewer\u2019s gaze to wander in.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Latest exhibition<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Suon pinnassa 21<\/h3>\n

Galleria Koppelo<\/strong>
Kauppakatu 14, Tampere<\/h4>\n

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