IN THE LANDSCAPE – Tuula Heikkilä-Özgür and Maikku Huovila

“In the Landscape” is a joint exhibition by two visual artists living and working in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The exhibition explores the themes of forest and water. The artists’ approach has been based on the experience of the landscape—whether it’s sitting by the water or walking in the forest, experiencing the local landscape, and exploring the surface and depth.

MAIKKU HUOVILA is a painter from Sipoo. She is interested in water as a sensory experience.
In the Sipoo River, the water is murky brown, and its surface reflects, acting as a mirror to the environment. Maikku’s works address the state of the water systems and land use. Through her works, she aims to live and observe the environment and its language, maintaining a connection between nature and humanity. Her paintings of the Sipoo River involve the theme of water and the interaction between the surface and the formlessness of the paint. The works are made from recycled materials and pigments created from local vegetation.

TUULA HEIKKILÄ-ÖZGÜR is a painter from Vantaa. Her oil paintings depict landscapes from the Louhela neighborhood in Vantaa, with scenes from its forests, roadsides, and passing places.
Her paintings reflect on how our everyday environment is the nature in which we live. This nature can be both ugly and beautiful. Trees, their branches, street lamps, and road signs form lines within the landscape. In her paintings, rhythmic lines describe the movement of our environment, both in the present moment and over a longer period. Although we attempt to delineate our environment in different ways, the freely growing and human-made environments always mix together.

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