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Artists of the exhibition Naïve Artists in Iittala are sometimes present introducing to their works and working methods. I was present on Sunday, and what a fun day it was! I thought I manage to carve a small cat on a piece of lino, but that remained as an aim. A big crowd of Naïve art enthusiast were visiting, and there was a lot of discussions. Many of the visitors had also tried themselves linocutting, at least at school. Many people were interested in techniques of linocutting, we talked a lot about different lino materials, numbers of the printed series, carving blades and some tools for pulling linocuts by hand. The subjects varied from dogs to cats, even the old houses of the town Rauma popped up among the scenes of Pispala. When you look at the whole exhibition again, some new artists and findings are a delight - it was fun to compare Kia-Maria Aho´s and Lauri Lahtinen´s interpretations of a theme by Henri Rousseau. My husband photographed a local black cat wandering across the yard behind Margit Hakanen´s glass work.
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| Kaarina Alsta |
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| Kauko Lehtonen |
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| Kati Mikola |
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| Vesa Sarenko |
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| Lauri Lahtinen |
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| Kia-Maria Aho |
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| Talvikki Lusa |
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| Margit Hakanen |











