Art Confluences: 2.12 - 13.12.2015, Tampereen kansainvälinen toimintakeskuksessa

Crina Samarghitean (ed)

As Picasso said, ‘art washes away the dust of the day’. We all wish that our artworks will inspire you and washes away all the dust and sorrow of the day. We hope you all enjoy the art exhibition and that our paintings will bring some magic into your homes for Christmas.

Anne Alantela lives and works in Tampere as a freelancer artist. She is a BA of visual arts from TAMK and glass artisan from IKTOL. In her work she is transforming traditional still–life issues to updated versions of 2000 century, full of food and richeness in the western countries, but also drowning into waste. Lately she has been mostly interested in painting on recycled materials, like coverings of car wheels. She is also passionately curious about other cultures, people and languages, which comes out in her hobbies as an association activist and studies of Romanian language.

Daniela Balog comes from Braila, Romania. She started painting during high-school (not an Art one, but a Math and Computer Science), at Hugo Maracineanu’s studio. He was and still is her mentor. Then she decided to study Interior and Product Design, in Timisoara. Afterwards, she emigrated in Finland, and had a pretty long break. She went back to her passion about 2 years ago. She mostly paints in watercolor and acrylic.

Jenni Blommendal is a 28 years old media student from Tampere. Her dream is to become and illustrator one day. She is also interested in making animation and graphic design. The watercolour paintings she shows here are illustrations for a school project: Goldilocks and the three Bears.

Violeta Ciubotaru is a Romanian translator and a Russian and French teacher. She paints since childhood. Painting was her biggest passion, besides traditional Romanian music. Her talents runs in the family, coming from her great-grandfather (Ioan Ciubotaru) who was a painter, the same as her father, Mihai Ciubotaru (Gheki), who was also a painter and an architect. Violeta never studied painting but she loves beauty and she tries to express in her paintings what touches her soul.

Elina Guina is a 5th grade student in Nekala elementary school. Elina discovered her passion for arts at a very young age and started to paint more seriously in 2011 when she joined the arts classes in Sara Hilden Academy. Currently, she is tutored by Daniela Balog in her way to discover the tools of painting. Elina has been always interested in all arts but painting helps express herself the best. She gets inspired by nature and music, therefore these themes are found very often among her artworks.

Elena Howlader is a Romanian artist and designer. She started painting at an early age so she followed the artistic path since high school. Painting and drawing have always been her greatest passions. Her style evolved over time. She now aims to complex thoughts and reduce them to simple, powerful messages. Sometimes it is nice just to paint without too much thinking. She uses nature and the mirror for inspiration. She keeps her mind open for ideas all the time, everything can inspire if you know how to look at it.

Carina Qvick-Kansanaho comes from Kangasala, Finland. She has been painting as a hobby for 30 years now. She started to paint with oil colours in 1985, when she joined an oil painting course in Kangasalo Opisto. She has been an on/off painter for years with some very intensive periods versus long times - even years - of total ‘silence’, without holding a brush in her hand. With watercolours she started at the beginning of 2000’s on a weekend course in Kangasala, inspired by a great water colour artist Mirja Pulkkila, who was teaching there. She likes to capture the feeling of a moment, trying to combine the idea and the object. She is also interested in trying to make the light and shadow visible. She has taken part in a few spring exhibitions of Kangasala Main Library together with her ex-colleague in 2006. She mainly paints landscapes, flowers and still life, and she get inspiration from beautiful scenes or places she has visited. Painting with oil makes her more conventional as a painter, as well as more traditional and more realistic – with water colours she feels more capable of expressing her feelings and moods.

Crina Samarghitean is a Romanian artist, doctor and scientist, born in Bistrita, the gate of Transylvania, currently living in Finland. She was selected to an art school when she was a child and she won some national art competitions in school. Since 2010, she participated and organised many art exhibitions in medical conventions and different other venues. She is inspired by science, in particular immunology, medicine, nature, landscape, music, Nobel laureates &discoveries, and famous personalities in music and sport. She paints mainly in acrylic, impasto, but also in oil and watercolour. Her paintings are all over the world in private collections and health institutions.

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