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Helena Vartiainen - Curriculum vitae
Helena Vartiainen, painter
Born in Eno 1963
Studies
Studies of art in Liminka art school 1983-85
Teachers e.g. William Dennisuk and Mary Jane Gregory
Icon painting studies supervised by Father Robert de Caluwé 1987
Artisan examination, Arts and crafts school, Oulu, 1991
Painter examination, North Carelian Polytechnic, Joensuu, 1995
Painting with casein tempera
I have been painting with tempera since 1995 and have created an original painting technique. I use casein, which is a traditional glue used by carpenters, as the medium of my paint and mix it with colour pigments. I paint on paper using different sized spatulas. "Painting is like music."
Paintings of nature, images of water
My painting technique is especially suitable for painting water in it´s varying forms; running, frozen, as fog, as veil of snow. Paintings of North Carelian nature - the dim light of January, snow-packed trees, running rapids that do not freeze even in coldest winter. Moments in February when sharp sunshine paints the landscape. In March the winter loses it´s stregth and in April the land-covering snow sighs and starts to vanish. Subjects for paintings that derive from images of my childhood in Sarvinki, Eno - and the everlasting, dark and cold winter.
"Course of water", a painting in Eno health-care center, 1999
Several exhibitions with theme "Course of water", 1999-2001
Exhibition "Winter grows old", Ilomantsi, 2004
"Dispensation", a triptych, Church of Rantakylä, Joensuu, 2005
Exhibition "Colours of water", Salla, Lapland, winter 2005-06
Images of people
I have been painting people since 1995. In these paintings I mix together casein tempera and drawing with charcoal and dry pastels.
”Red lady”, Joensuu Art Museum collections, 1995
Environmental art
"On the way" in the Church of Pielisensuu, Joensuu, Easter 1994
in collaboration with Eija Ikävalko-Känkänen and Juha-Pekka Vartiainen
"White sorrow" in the North Carelian central hospital, summer 1995
”Forest Cube” in the market place of Joensuu, summer 1996
in collaboration with Liisa Nikitin, Jaana Tolonen and Juha-Pekka Vartiainen
Own workshop
Buying an an old school building in Eno 1996.
Art gallery Pohjapiste
Exhibitions in Pohja school
POHJA CHRISTMAS, 1998, opening exhibition
CHILDREN ON THE ROAD, 2001
With Marja Hassinen
SUMMER EVE´S CHARM, 2002
With Marja Hassinen and a group of villagers
PAINTINGS, 2004
With Päivi Romppanen
ART EXHIBITION, 2005
Target number 4 on the Art Map of Eno
Nyhjäsy Villagers´group in Pohjapiste
The principle of Nyhjäsy is to make useful, decorative and art objects out of natural and recycled materials. Gatherings on Sundays during winter, courses during summer. Participants of different ages.
Artists of Eno -group
First meeting in Pohjapiste, 2004
Joint exhibition VILLAGE DOGS, 2004
Art Map of Eno, summer 2005
Joint exhibition in Uimaharju, 2005
Joint exhibition NATURALLY in Joensuu, 2006
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