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FIN-Kemi born artist<\/h5>\n

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Lea Viita is my maiden name. Viita means an old forest.  My favourite subject at school was drawing but I graduated at School of Economics and University of Helsinki 1976 as my father hoped.<\/p>\n

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In the 1990’s art stimulated my interest and I began to draw with ink on paper and paint with acrylic on Kemij\u00e4rvi factory cellulose in kitchen and bedroom.<\/p>\n

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When I began to paint bigger and bigger works my husband built studio 1994, called Gallery Lea Viita. Since then I have been able to paint on the floor and nowadays mainly on canvas. My working method is  ”action painting”  and favourite artists are Jackson Pollock (1912 \u2013 1956) and Reidar S\u00e4rest\u00f6niemi (1925 \u2013 1981) from Finnish Lapland and all old impressionists.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I like to draw with ink accurately for example on old skate- or snowboards or on Japanese paper. I used to paint or draw a set of 10 \u2013 20 works one after another – if I have spare time and good feeling. I worked as a teacher in Lapland (1976 \u2013 2008).<\/p>\n

The Nature of Lapland is the source of my inspiration, particularly the winter, forest, northern lights and snow. When I begin to paint, I hope that  wind or  rain helps me to spread colours and all the other materials on canvas.<\/p>\n

I began in 90\u2019 to arrange personal exhibitions and take part in group exhibitions. At the moment I am free from daily works at school and I can paint every day as I want.<\/p>\n

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FIN-Kemi born artist Lea Viita is my maiden name. Viita means an old forest.  My favourite subject at school was drawing but I graduated at School of Economics and University of Helsinki 1976 as my father hoped.   In the 1990’s art stimulated my interest and I began to draw with ink on paper and paint with acrylic on Kemij\u00e4rvi factory cellulose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":112,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaviita.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}