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The linocut and pastel of the fourth egg cat is blue. The eggdhell is coloured spotted blue, and the pastel in the sky is blue. Linocut birds are flying in the sky, and the name of the picture is "The Day of the Migratory Birds".
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The third linocut of an egg cat hatching has an yellow eggshell. In the pastel sky there still are flying some linocut birds, and over the hill is shining a golden moon.
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English Mary Fedden (1915-2012) painted Naïve Art still lifes, landscapes and animals. In this gouache painting there re fine pastel hues. Behind a window a pale moon shines on the beach, where a gray shadow of a cat is passing like a ghost. The houses on the beach are painted simple but beautiful. In front of the window there is sitting a brownish cat on a curtain on the table. The cat is like not seeing at all the other cat creeping outside. On the table there are small objects typical for Fedden, a vase, perhaps a stone, jar and half of a fruit. There are so many things happening in the picture, but the atmosphere and composition are still peaceful.
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The second hatching cat got a pale green eggshell, pastel sky and small linocut birds in the sky.
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I added a bit colour on the eggshell of the first car hatching and and I added blue acrylic colour by tapping with a sponge in the sky. Lastly I printed small linocut birds. Perhaps the eggshell could be brighter and the sky might work better with soft pastel. The size is A4.
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On the walls of Gallery Saskia there are now paintings by three men, mainly oil and acrylic paintings. This is not any coherent exhibition but actually a combination of three different syles and personas. Markku Arantila (b. 1960) has in his paintings a bit Naïve art twist, they are childlike, bright, the figures are imaginative and the landscapes are mystic. I really liked these! In between there are Pekka Hepoluhta's (b. 1957) gentle and delicate still lifes, really opposites to Arantila's paintings. In the paintings by Jari Jula (b. 1961) election and political party themes are repeating, the paintings are big and they have exciting unfinished details, even some drawing, and there is a face that seem familiar in one painting - but who is he?
Heinarin eli Heikki-Pekka Miettisen (1951-2022) muistonäyttely on pääkirjasto Metson alakerrassa. Näyttelyssä on monia sarjakuvia ja pilakuvia tampepelaisesta opiskelijalehdestä Aviisista ja Pahkasika-lehdestä. Heinari oli aikamoinen kulttihahmo. Heinarin tunnisti heti kun hänet näki harppomassa omissa ajatuksissaan Tahmelassa tai PIspalan mäissä. Tätä nostalgista näkyä ei enää näe. Näyttelyn on suureksi osaksi koonnut Timo Kokkila**************
Heinari i.e. Heikki Pekka Miettinen´s (1951-2022) memorial exhibition is downstairs in the main library Metso. There are many comics and drawings in this exhibition from the student magazine Aviisi in Tampere and Pahkasika magazine. Heinari was quite a cult figure. You recognized Heinari right away when you saw him walking in his own thoughts in Tahmela or the slopes of Pispala. There is not any more this nostalgic sight.The exhibition was mainly put together by Timo Kokkila.
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The yellow cat in the painting by Francis Broomfieldin (b. 1951) is looking at you rather seriously, like an emperor. The name of the the cat is Jock, and around him there clearly is a painter's studio, brushes, paint tubes, an easel and ready paintings on the wall. The picture seems rather realistic, so perhaps it was painted after a photograph. Jock is Winston Churchill's first marmalade coloured cat, which he got at his 88th birth day.
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A couple of details and a video of making the work: linocuts and soft pastel. Water on the shore of Tahmela, Pispala, fish, shells and a lot of water sun shining trough.
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In the big mixed media work about the shore water appeared now beams of light i.e. soft pastel. I also added a huge amount of small linocut fish, coral and bubbles. And there is space in this picture, 100 x 60 cm.
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Happy Birthday if you happen to have such a day today! Congratulations from a kitten and milk bottle. The card has been printed in England as letterpress on a vintage Windmil l press. The colours are seen finely embossed.
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The first layer of soft blue pastel for the water has been spread on the paper. The bottom with its stones is already done at the lower paper of the paper with soft pastels. A few fish and the beach as linocuts have been printed already earlier. Still I´m a bit terrified, how big is this picture really - 100 x 60 cm.
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I started to make the third mixedmedia work about the underwater world. And this will me big in my scale, 60 x 100 cm. Fish and shells seem to fit to this size quite a lot. A bit frightening, what will this really be!!
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At Tampere Artists' Association's exhibition space in Mältinranta there are two finely together fitting exhibitions. Johanna Pöykkö's sculptural, large and still light hangings like sculptures are made of coloured sheets, which are cut as stripes. The shadows reflecting on the walls and floor are part of the works. In Rose-Mari Torpo's paintings there are similar hazy colours and shapes, like throwbacks, dreams or reflections. And in the Artists' Association's art loan service there are hundreds of works over a hundred artists in rambling corridors and basement. One purchase just got out of the door in a packet with a borrower, and there was left one empty space on the wall.
