Common feature for all of them is that paper has a very vital and important role in their art in various ways. Some of these artists have concentrated in recent years totally on the paper, others use it regulary together with other materials. They all have also important role in the active Finnish paper art schene. Through this exhibition we would like to introduce also different technical possibilities and methods of handling materials.
Recycling resembles also the course of life.
From this nordic esthetics derives a desire to use colours that come with the raw-material itself. Material should speak with it's own voice, sotto voce. A ll artists are fascinated with the possibilities that paper allows for them as a material. Material itself, touch of it during work-processees, which can bring up surprices, is essential for them. More or less they take these suspicions as a challange.