Jaakko Rönkkö
Basic information
b. 1947, Vieremä
Visual Artist
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Phone number: 050 370 90 26
Email: jaakronk@hotmail.com
Artist’s Statement
The origins of my art lie in the childhood nature - experience in the countryside of the Finnish North Savo region countryside in the early 50's.
My art is based on drawing. In my works on paper I survey line and color. Themes come from the unconscious though the visuality of my works is close to the processes of nature.
Though my experience is subjective I am conscious of the drama between nature and man.
My pictures are landscapes if we accept that cosmic eruptions, chemistry of a human body and lilies in my flower bed belong to the same nature.
I love to make wall-drawings directly onto the wall at the place of exhibition as I think this action as creating of a new universe.
My wall-pieces are usually accompanied by smaller drawings and gouaches that appear as a micro-cosmos of the large work.
My practice of color comes of two sources: firstly of looking at the varying of form and color in nature and secondly from writings of wise men like Goethe, Albers and Itten. When my own imagination is not enough I turn to these two precious sources.
My art is based on drawing. In my works on paper I survey line and color. Themes come from the unconscious though the visuality of my works is close to the processes of nature.
Though my experience is subjective I am conscious of the drama between nature and man.
My pictures are landscapes if we accept that cosmic eruptions, chemistry of a human body and lilies in my flower bed belong to the same nature.
I love to make wall-drawings directly onto the wall at the place of exhibition as I think this action as creating of a new universe.
My wall-pieces are usually accompanied by smaller drawings and gouaches that appear as a micro-cosmos of the large work.
My practice of color comes of two sources: firstly of looking at the varying of form and color in nature and secondly from writings of wise men like Goethe, Albers and Itten. When my own imagination is not enough I turn to these two precious sources.
