Liisa Karintaus
ON THE FOREST EDGE AND OTHER PAINTINGS
19.11.-5.12.2021
Yö Galleria
Lönnrotinkatu 33, 00180 Helsinki
Tue-Fri 14-19 Sat-Sun 12-17
Exhibition opening on Thursday 18.11. at 17-21.
Welcome!
On the Forest Edge and other paintings consists of works on canvas and animation on a TV screen. The starting point for the painting installation is a memory of a childhood landscape. The subjects combine, for example the dark coniferous forest in the courtyard of a mental hospital in Northern Finland, a person in the landscape with their dog, a chain of generations, the joy of drawing and the observation of colors. My work combines drawing and painting, they alternate during the process. I usually start working with drawing but the works get finished with colors.
The best thing about painting is the opportunity to express yourself freely and intuitively, to combine different things and ideas into the same work, and the possibility to end up with something unexpected.
The works are made with oil, tempera, plant glues, charcoal and chalks.
Liisa Karintaus is a painter living and working in Helsinki (b.1977 Rovaniemi M.Sc., Muurola). She graduated from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2018.
The work for the exhibition is supported by the Art Promotion Center.