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Sasa Saastamoinen

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I use techniques and principles of traditional Chinese ink painting to create contemporary artwork on paper. I am fascinated by expressive properties of ink, its various ways of mark making, and the immediacy and irreversibility of the medium. I enjoy exploring the tonal range of ink and combining it with natural plant and mineral pigments typical for Chinese ink painting.

I like to play with Chinese ink painting's concept of composition, which builds up on contrasts and uniformity. The artwork consists of opposites such as wet / dry, large / small, light / dark, empty / crowded and unifying elements such as similarities of shapes or movement. My paintings often depict flowers, not as botanical illustrations but imaginary beings, vehicles for expressing human relationships, feelings, and ideas. My latest work ventures also into portraying the contemporary urban life and landscape with ink.
 
Exhibitions
Developing Landscapes, Pump House Gallery, London, 2016
Day Dreams, Brick Lane Gallery, London, 2013
Shadow Garden, Solo, Gallery Jangva, Helsinki, 2012

After Rain
Shadow
Red Flower
Ten Thousand Lotuses
Fireworks
Grass Joker
Ink Flower
Love
Old Photo

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