Ismo Jokiaho

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. ...