Elina Martta Talvikki Koskimies
Basic information
b. 1963, Kokemäki
Visual Artist, Painter, Installation Artist, (Environmental Artist)
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Phone number: +358 505247315
Email: elinakoskimies@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
Structural and color changes in the environment are often the starting point for my work. The changes are related to my movings from an area to an other, changes in places and their modification, caused by human being with their artificial interventions. In my work, I usually use water-soluble painting materials such as watercolor on paper, pigments in different tempera techniques on different materials, or in fresco on rocky bases.
Already since my studies in Italy I have used fresco painting -technics, that I learned there, applying it in the actual idea. I have all the time been interested in numerous possibilities that this technics even with it's scarce colour range and rough materials offer. In my works I combine painting, drawing and writing on the minerals; stone and earth pigments. By side of working with fresco especially during the phase of sketching I use photographing and watercolours.
I benefit the old handicraft methods in many phases to achieve the result. They are originally tecnical solutions, which have become in my works a part of the meaning. I combine both old ways for example in transferring sketches on the fresh plaster surface and complicated means, used by the conservators, to detach and move mural painting from a wall to an other place. The materials and layers are a part of the history of the piece of art. The spirit of the place and time I may describe together with drawings through materials, through their scarcity or richness. I may mix in the mortar crushed shells, powdered abandoned bricks, barbecue coal and eggshells .
Already since my studies in Italy I have used fresco painting -technics, that I learned there, applying it in the actual idea. I have all the time been interested in numerous possibilities that this technics even with it's scarce colour range and rough materials offer. In my works I combine painting, drawing and writing on the minerals; stone and earth pigments. By side of working with fresco especially during the phase of sketching I use photographing and watercolours.
I benefit the old handicraft methods in many phases to achieve the result. They are originally tecnical solutions, which have become in my works a part of the meaning. I combine both old ways for example in transferring sketches on the fresh plaster surface and complicated means, used by the conservators, to detach and move mural painting from a wall to an other place. The materials and layers are a part of the history of the piece of art. The spirit of the place and time I may describe together with drawings through materials, through their scarcity or richness. I may mix in the mortar crushed shells, powdered abandoned bricks, barbecue coal and eggshells .
