Ismo Jokiaho's Page

Website

http://www.ismojokiaho.fi

Relationship status

unresolved

College / University

Joensuu University

Program / Degree

Cultural sciences and arts

Graduation

September 28, 1992

Member type

Artist, Other

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

born in 1965 in a place called Saarijärvi in the middle of Finland. Currently I live in a city called Tampere working in a tampere art Museum and as an artist.

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 graduating 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. I believe very strongly that every artist has their own individual world to show. So do I.

I´m kind of outsider art maker who is never institutionalized, because I ´ll paint what I want, not that what is on the “art world” mainstream whatever.

My paintings are a curious mix of the eastern motifs and the modern western style. Very cultural and still very natural by nature.

Creativity is a spiritual, yet not religious experience for me. It´s a little bit like meditation. It is one way to respond to the questions of life.

About my artwork

For me, personally, to paint is like to breath; natural, effortless and free. For me all the great art today express something quite different from what words can express. When the paintig flows, the painter and the painted are the same.

My paintings are total worlds of their own, nothing more or less and very true in their own universe. In that universe my mental images transforms into graphic form

Artists I like

So many...

Interests

:-)

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

You tell me!

Centre of the artworld:

my studio, nowhere and everywhere