For inland living artist sea and it´s shores give endless inspiration. I usually paint at home so I have to do sketching or photographing interresting subjects. If I find smaller interresting rocks, branches or plants, I often take them to my home. Many times I have plan for a painting in my head years, before I am ready to paint it. Then all sketches are waluable help.
I had a change to spent couple of days in Finlands shouth coast studying rocks, plants growing in cracks and small ponds of rainwater.
Gneiss and granite forms interresting patterns.
Tiny plants are trying to survive in the heat of rocky shore.
Shores of Koivu-island
Sun is setting behind fog and smoke
Pictures from Finnish bird painters exhibition in Gallery Karaija.
Painting by Kari Eicher.
Four paintings from Jari Kostet.
Artists Kari Eicher (left) and Jari Kostet.
Black grouse by Kenneth Rosenlund.
Aquarell paintings by Matti Kapanen.
Colourfull oil paintings by Risto Lammin-Soila.
Tom Bjöklund´s akrylic painting.
Tom Björklund.
Dick Forsmas´s painting.
Dick Forsman.
Bar tailled godwit painting. Juho Könönen.
Hanna Aalto
Arctic redpoll and snowy owl paintings.
Well come to finnish bird artists exhibition in gallery Karaija in Inkoo west from Helsinki.
“Artists:
Hanna Aalto, Tom Björklund, Kari Eischer, Dick Forsman, Matti Kapanen, Jari Kostet, Juho Könönen,
Risto Lammin-Soila, Esko Railo, Kenneth Rosenlund, Pekka Saikko, Hannu Sarvanne, Pekka Suhonen
Opening 27.7. klo 17-19″
Painting: Kari Eischer
Talvisten lintulaudalla vierailevien lintujen taakse tarvittiin luminen kaupunkinäkymä. Kerrostalon sisäpiha voisi näyttää taltä kunnon lumipyryn jälkeen.
Bird feeding is very popular in Finland. In Helsinki Zoological museum there is window scene with most common feeder visitors. I painted city wiev after snowstorm.
Common terns that are breeding on parking lot of Parikkala Siikalahti bird sanctuary were models for this painting. Instead of Siikalahti view, I did paint this bird on sea shore rock shaped by ice age and human. There is lots of stones with year numbers in Finland. Some of them are old border marks, but most are made by ordinary people.
Finished painting:
