Aulikki Nukala

Basic information

b. 1950, Kauhava, Alahärmä
Painter
Residence: HELSINKI

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Artist’s Statement

“It is joyful and refreshing to create something that did not exist before – and then it does!”
“The breath of life, the power and beauty of nature, and the many emotions that can be shared through them.”

Rivers, forests, fields, and meadows were the everyday surroundings of my childhood in an Ostrobothnian rural village. The significance of nature emerged in my paintings in the 1970s, after my art studies in Helsinki, when I lived in the province of Lapland for 13 years.
All the richness of nature, its details, the vastness, and the emotions brought by light and weather became the essential content of my watercolor and oil paintings.
Plein air—being and working in nature—was the inspiring starting point of the Impressionists and me.
Today, I also am interested in the deeper symbolism expressible through nature, as well as human relationships and the poetry of life's phenomena.

My works are included in several collections of art museums, cities, and municipalities, as well as in hospitals, banks, etc.
My art is also represented abroad in Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Portugal and Russia. See CV for details.


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Current information

2025

Art exhibitions in Lapland: Ylitornio. Sodankylä, Ivalo

Helsinki Music Centre: artists from Finland and China

2024

Gallery ART anukala Nordenskiöldinkatu 3, 00250 Helsinki

Window Show during the summer

Contact: aulikki.nukala@gmail.com

 

Bio

First juried exhibition: Center of the Artist Association of Helsinki, Finland 1979 Primary techniques Oil and aquarelle painting, video, installation ( video/object) Memberships in Artist Unions Finnish Painters Union Artist Association of Helsinki Association of Finnish Aquarelle Art The Nordic Watercolour Association IWS Finland (International Watercolour Society of Finland ) -leader from  year 2018 Education Matriculation Examination 1970, Alahärmä, Finland Art studie University of Art and Design Helsinki, department of general studies 1971, graphical studies 1973 University of Art and Design Helsinki, department of art pedagogics 1977 Summer University of Lapland, philosophy, art history 1989 Satakunta Institute of Arts and Crafts, video and cinema technical/artistic complimentary studies 1991 pedagogical complimentary studies 1992 computer animation complimentary studies 1993 Commissions of trust: University of Helsinki, Theatre of Southern Finland's Student Union, Member of board 1973-74 Tornio Art Association board 1986-90 "Ursulat", chairman for the cultural event board of the women artists of North calotte area 1988, 1989 Board of "Frida", Secretary 1999-2002 Representative of the Finnish Artist Association, 1999, m.of r. 2016, 2019 Finnish Painters Union, membership selections board 1999, m.of r. 2015, 2019 About art exhibitions, collections, teaching and other artistic actions more in CV