About The Artist

Maija Vanhatapio was born in Helsinki in 1946 and now lives in Kajaani. She was graduated as a graphic designer, had her own advertising agency, studied fine arts at the University of Lapland. Since 2006 she has participated in several exhibitions each year, both in private gallery exhibitions and in group exhibitions (inc. Finland, Spain, Japan). Maija Vanhatapio paints mostly with acrylic or mixed media with oil. Nordic Nature is the basis for her themes: its textures, colors and lights. Vanhatapio picks out what's vital and thought-provoking, digests and rebuilds an abstract story in order to present the nature in a new form to the viewer.