I have found out that I have readers all around the world, so this blogging is specially to you, my foreign friends! And of course also to you, my Finnish friends!
I know you are interested in art and in beauty, so that´s why I want to introduce to you the flowers which stay fresh forever.
They are the works by six brilliant Finnish photographers. Almost all of these are members of the Union of Artist Photographers in Finland. You can contact them directly or via galleries if you want to buy their work.
These are my personal favorites at the moment. Some are new, some are a few years old. There is something human in those pictures – or is it only human to see soul in nature?
Iiu Susiraja
Iiu Susiraja is an earthquake in the Finnish new photography. Young lady, big ideas. Literally big. And then those honest moments, sweet and humble. I love this picture.
Kun kosken kukkiin/When I touch the flowers
Sakari Viika
is known for his impressive dance photographs he takes for the Finnish National Ballet. This picture is something different. It does not jump, but there is the rhythm and the movement. And the power of the nature.
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Saara Ekström
This is her flower picture from the year 2001 from the series Nursery. To me it shows dark, heavy mystery of life, but there is also a hope in it. Sickness of a flower. It is tenderly treated by a child, but is it really getting better?
Convalescents. C-print mounted on aluminium. Size 45.5 x 45.5 cm.
Ida Pimenoff
Ida and the dreamlike poetry of senses! It is always so comforting to find pictures with a hint of hope in them. This whipped cream flower is so full of light, joy and sweetness. You can almost taste it.
Untitled IV. From the series Perhaps Loneliness Does Not Exist After all, 2002.
125 x 100 cm. Edition 5.
Marjukka Vainio
It has been said that Marjukka Vainio´s photographs are like jewels which glow in the darkness of winter. She has been photographing flowers a long time. But how! Is it possible to X-ray a soul?
From the series Light of the Earth. Tulip IX, 2005. 64 x 51 cm.
Gallery Taik
berlin@gallerytaik.com
Galleria Kone
Kulttuurikeskus Verkatehdas
galleriakone@gmail.com
Galleria Heino
info@galleriaheino.com
www.galleriaheino.com
Catarina Ryöppy
PS. And then one addition more!
Catarina Ryöppy
It took awhile to get in touch with Catarina Ryöppy, who is one our best known artists. But today I got her e-mail telling that it is fine to add her picture to my blog.
I am happy to do so, because I was so impressed when I saw this picture for the first time. It is full of magic. The silent outsiders, who are they, disguised as velvety flowers?
cat@ryoppy.net
http://www.ryoppy.net
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