I was born 25. february in 1965 in Saarijrvi, in central Finland. Currently I live in a city called Tampere working in a Artmuseum of Tampere and as an artist.

I began to paint when I was about twenty after a one crucial trip to different european art museums.
After that experiment my interest for painting grew.

After my graduating in 1992 from the cultural studies and arts at the University of Joensuu I started to paint regularly.

As an artist I consider myself as a D.I.Y artist and a self-teaching painter, because art is never ending process for me. I believe very strongly that every artist has their own individual world to show.
So do I.

Im kind of outsider art maker who is never institutionalized, because
I ll paint what I want, not that what is on the art world mainstream whatever.

Art as communication is basic to Western aesthetics, as is the relationship between form and content. Art has developed a complex linguistic symbolism through which the artworld manipulates this material to communicate with audience.

For me to paint is like to breath; natural, effortless and free. For me all the great art today express something quite different from what words can express. When the paintig flows, the painter and the painted are the same.

My paintings are total worlds of their own, nothing more or less and very true in their own universe. In that universe my mental images transforms into
graphic form.

My paintings are nowadays a curious mix of the eastern motifs and the modern western style. Very cultural and still very natural by nature.

Creativity is a spiritual, yet not religious experience for me. Its a little bit like meditation. It is one way to respond to the questions of life.

Ismo Jokiaho