Rauni Sipilä

Basic information

b. 1938, Suomussalmi
Visual Artist, Painter
Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Phone number: 040-5899045

Artist’s Statement

Life is a process. The environment changes, I myself change. Not one moment is like another. This constantly changing, unlimited, flowing state of change is what I describe in my paintings. The colours are essentially important. While there are often many of them in a single painting, they must appear as if they were harmonized and united by the light that illuminates them all. The impulses often come from the unconscious, while intuition together with conscious mind direct how I proceed. Although the events in life as well as on canvas constantly change, there is a struggle towards some kind of a firm centre, in the core of which are openness, sincerity and readiness to change.
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Bio

Rauni Sipilä was born in Suomussalmi in northern Finland and now lives and works in the capital Helsinki and also in the country in central Finland. She is a M.A. from Helsinki University (1963) and studied visual arts in the Free Art School of Helsinki in 1977-1982. Rauni Sipilä has exhibited regularly in Helsinki and other cities since 1985. In Helsinki there have been solo exhibitions for example in Gallery Duetto, Gallery Katariina, Gallery Johan S. and Gallery BE19. Among co-exhibitions are the Finnish Artists´ yearly exhibitions, regional exhibitions and the exhibitions of the Union of the Finnish Art Associations. At the moment Rauni Sipilä mostly works with oil. Her colorism is based on pure, often strong colours. While basically abstract, suggestions to open spaces, water, plants and other subjects and experiences referring to nature can be sensed in her works. Rauni Sipilä is a member of the following associations: Finnish Painters´ Union Helsinki Artists´Association, Nordiska Akvarellsällskapet, Finnish Watercolour Society