Marje Viitala
Basic information
Visual Artist, Graphic Artist/Printmaker
Residence: Tampere
Contact information
Phone number: +35844-261 4107
Email: marje.viitala(at)kolumbus.fi
Artist’s Statement
In the blue soft light, the characters in my pictorial world tell their own story of humanity, desires and feelings. Nature creates its own quiet networks, allowing light to reflect emotions.
Art takes its form from life and the thoughts crystallize from the invisible to the visible, sleep and the world of wakeness mix into a view like philosophy and poetry.
As a technique, I use traditional etching and woodcut techniques. Sometimes i try also another materials. It detaches work from the more familiar steps and always evokes something new and supports the old. Sometimes you have to go further to get back close.
I draw etchings directly on the copperplate without sketching; I make works with the flow idea. It is important that the subconscious mind speaks freely.
Work lives on, through the process of its final form.
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Marje Viitala is a visual artist and graphic artist of three generations. As a technique, she uses traditional metal graphics and woodcut technigue.
Viitala was born in Vammala and currently works in Tampere. She received her art education at the Kankaanpää Art School, with a graphic line.
Viitala have exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally, for example 10th Douro Biennal, Portugal, Paradise Art Gallery, Japan; Finnish woodcarvers, Northern art Scandinavia Collaboration Japan-finland, Riihimäki Art Museum; 4th Annual Exhibition of the Finnish Society of Wood Designers, Kustaa Hiekka Art Museum; Uusin silmin-exhibition suomi100 celebration exhibition.
She is a member of The Association of Finnish Printmakers, Finnish Woodcut Artists Society, the Tampere Artists 'Association, the artists' association Avarataide ry.
Viitala has works in the Tampere Art Museum, in the collections of Sastamala and the City of Nokia, as well as in private collections.
Art takes its form from life and the thoughts crystallize from the invisible to the visible, sleep and the world of wakeness mix into a view like philosophy and poetry.
As a technique, I use traditional etching and woodcut techniques. Sometimes i try also another materials. It detaches work from the more familiar steps and always evokes something new and supports the old. Sometimes you have to go further to get back close.
I draw etchings directly on the copperplate without sketching; I make works with the flow idea. It is important that the subconscious mind speaks freely.
Work lives on, through the process of its final form.
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Marje Viitala is a visual artist and graphic artist of three generations. As a technique, she uses traditional metal graphics and woodcut technigue.
Viitala was born in Vammala and currently works in Tampere. She received her art education at the Kankaanpää Art School, with a graphic line.
Viitala have exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally, for example 10th Douro Biennal, Portugal, Paradise Art Gallery, Japan; Finnish woodcarvers, Northern art Scandinavia Collaboration Japan-finland, Riihimäki Art Museum; 4th Annual Exhibition of the Finnish Society of Wood Designers, Kustaa Hiekka Art Museum; Uusin silmin-exhibition suomi100 celebration exhibition.
She is a member of The Association of Finnish Printmakers, Finnish Woodcut Artists Society, the Tampere Artists 'Association, the artists' association Avarataide ry.
Viitala has works in the Tampere Art Museum, in the collections of Sastamala and the City of Nokia, as well as in private collections.
