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Artist Statement:
My works and pictures are
usually made in ink and oil
colors. These are the two main
styles and medias I´ll use. My
works are reflections to my
internal and the external
life. In my work I´ll try to
put my life-experiences
visible as a whole. My
surroundings and the presence
of people in my life are very
important to me, challenging
and lively, but they do not
appear as recognizable
personalities in my works.
In my art realism intertwined
with fantasy, while
maintaining a full-time touch
with reality. My works is
becoming increasingly "human
condition" of humanity and the
possibilities of a purely
increasingly complex world,
targeting with life's passion,
flair, and awareness of the
common life forces.
My way of working is simple,
easy and quite unsystematic.
I´ll usually work with
traditional tools, brushes,
oils, canvases, paper etc. The
source material for much of my
work comes from all kind of
different structures and ideas
that surround me, physically
and mentally and my
inspirations come straight
from life, ideas, interactions
and the battle of the moments
between knowledge and
emptiness.
I work by adding a slightly
more broad outlines of the
material ...
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Ismo Jokiaho Biography:
| Biographical information for Ismo Jokiaho can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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46
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| Gender |
Male
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| Children |
2
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Art, life and everything else |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Your Personal Biography |
I was born in 1965 in a place called Saarijärvi in the middle of Finland. Currently I live in a city called Tampere working as an artist and a museum worker.
I began to paint when I was about twenty after a one crucial trip to different European art museums. After that experiment my interest for painting grew.
After my graduation in 1992 from the cultural studies and arts at the University of Joensuu I started to paint regularly. As an artist I consider myself as a D.I.Y artist and a self-teaching painter, because art is never ending process for me.
My early paintings were influenced by the expressionism and my personal life situations and realities. Those days I searched clarity, purity and straightforwardness of expression. I used to paint by using paints squeezed straight out from the tubes instead of mixing the colours while painting. I was aiming my inspirations and feelings on canvas straight and raw. I used to paint like a bird sings, spontaneously and free.
After that followed the strict period of abstract paintings. My goal at that period was to make paintings that have the strongest effect without any hard efforts. The subjects of paintings were actually faded out as much as possible. The main question for me at that time was what are the limits of painting so that it still can be called a painting. The idea was a kind of deconstruction of formal conventions of the idea of painting.
Eventually I found Sumi-e style of painting in December 2006. As an art form, Sumi-e gave me all the elements I needed for creating: Purity, intensity, chaos, power, perfection, discipline and beauty. Nowadays I am painting again with figurative motifs and subjects but the attitude toward painting has not change a bit from the beginning.
* My paintings and Sumi-e works today are based on the simple fact that I try to tell and concentrate on the essential. No matter if the subject is about “human condition” or “naturescape.” I am still inspired by the art of eastern Zen style paintings and traditional modern western modernist art. For me the main things of“zen philosophy” can be see mainly as source material for my own style. Sometimes the influence is barely evident and other times quite literal.
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