About me

I love art! These past few years I've been into abstract art and you'll see a lot of that in my gallery but lately I've also done my first love again, which is illustration. The technique for these two styles is extremely different. For illustration and realistic art you need absolute focus on the lines and disciplined concentration, and for abstract art you need to let all that go and just feel the colors and empty your head. Kind of like doing a puzzle and forming an image piece by piece and like watching clouds and catching a shape in it. So that's what goes on in my head!

I live in a small town near Helsinki together with my partner and our daughter. We love the nature here on the countryside and I get most of my inspiration from Finland’s beautiful nature, but what I also do is that I love coffee places! You know how some authors go with their laptops to a nearby coffee place and write their books? Well, I can't go to a coffee place with all my paints, but I love to sip my coffee in some lovely coffee place and think of new projects. After a strong espresso I go home and start to paint!

EXHIBITIONS:

2024/2025: DRAWING EXHIBITION AT THE ARCTIC CIRCLE 

14.12.2024 – 7.1.2025, Galleria Napa (Rovaniemi) 

2024: Koola Art Space (Helsinki) ‘Seascapes and creatures of the sea’

2023: Galleria Aarni (Espoo), 

Rainbow Magic - Tatu Vuolteenaho, Jani Maunula, Nadja Mikkilä, Tinttu Henttonen ja House of Disappointments.

Maalauksia, tekstiilitaidetta ja queer-magiaa

https://www.espoonkuvataiteilijat.fi/nayttelyt/rainbow-magic/

2023: Tila gallery: Rajamailla - solo exhibition (Helsinki)

2023: Galleria Fogga: Winter Poems (Helsinki)

2021: Tillarigalleria: Tatu Vuolteenaho exhibition, guest artist (Nivala)

2021: Galleria Fogga: Veden varassa (Helsinki)

2020: Galleria Fogga: Veden symboliikka (Helsinki)

2019: Twin Peaks UK Festival: Art gallery (London, United Kingdom)

2019-2020: Mikä-Art shop (Fiskars village)

2019: Vihti library: Animal kingdom (Nummela)

2017: Galleria Fogga: Sinivalkoisia sointuja (Helsinki)

2016: Hagelstam&Co: Art charity auction (Helsinki)

2016: Galleria Fogga: Elämä voittaa (Helsinki)

2015: Pirate sf exhibition at the Nordic SF Convention (Mariehamn, Åland island, Finland)

2014: Stencil portraits, Mbar gallery (Helsinki)

2013: Nummela library:  Strong women (Nummela)

2011: Gallery Golden Point (Nummela)

2011: Tata Gala, Breast Cancer Benefit Art Show, interactive show (USA tour)

2010: Gallery Provocateur - Halloween exhibition (Chicago, USA)

2006: Worlds biggest Erotic Art Exhibition "Dirty Show 7" (Detroit, USA)

2004: HTK Exhibition, Große Bleichen, (Hamburg, Germany)

PUBLICATIONS:

2020: Black and White: Volume 5 (USA publisher: Out of Step Books)

2013: Eight Arms of Inspiration: The Octopus Art Project (USA publisher: Out of Step Books)

EDUCATION:

2009: Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences: Bachelor degree in business information technology, Helsinki

2004: HTK Academy of Design: Bachelor degree in graphic design and illustration, Hamburg

2000: University of Hamburg: English literature - not completed-