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MOTH, 2018 COLLAGE RELIEF ON OIL PAINTED BOARD 49 X 73 CM.

LAST RAINBOW, 2014 MIXED MEDIA 50 X 55 X 5 CM.

BROKEN RAINBOW, 2015 COLLAGE RELIEF ON OIL PAINTED BOARD 49 X 100 CM.

PÄIVYT NIEMELÄINEN
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
www.paivytniemelainen.fi

Is a significant Finnish visual artist who lives in Helsinki. She has been
an active and experimental artist over twenty years. During this time I
have visited many of her exhibitions. Every time the experience of her
art has been a surprise because of their innovative character both in
content as well as in art methods. In the early period of her art career
she made oil, watercolor, wax and tempera paintings. To expand her
expression she also developed different special methods, such as
relief painting, and creating pictures in a prehistoric way like painting
with blood-water and pure pigments. She has used different kinds of
art materials, like recycled materials. She has also designed textiles,
print fabrics, and posters and written manuscripts for TV films.
Regarding the content of her art, the whole human life – in good
and bad - and impressions of nature, are in the focus of her art. The
artist also “wanders” in the secret gardens of existence. Her art gets
sometimes also an inspiration from ancient great stories, and features
of figures and tunes of colors may spring deep symbolic content in
her paintings. In recent years the artist has made forceful anti-war art
against greediness for money and violent oppression. This art acts
as a powerful comment on behalf of peace. On the whole, I can set
a great part of her art in the context of contemporary art due to the
variation of different art media and materials, as a sort of “serious art
play”. Presumably one reason for this has been her diverse education
as a textile artist, in the academic field at University of Helsinki (MA),
and in many different art training programs. Päivyt Niemeläinen has
been invited to participate in numerous Finnish as well as international
exhibitions like in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, England,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malta, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain,
Sweden and the USA. Her artworks have been published in many
international publications. She has paintings both in domestic and
foreign public and private collections. She has also memberships in
many Art Associations and she has got several grants in Finland and
abroad. (Inkeri Sava, PhD, emerita professor in Art Pedagogy)

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