Teppo and Smoking Gun Painting

I am a professional artist from Helsinki, Finland, who specialises in paintings with ultraviolet led light strips with built-in frames. I paint with oil and acrylic colours, with all parts cut and put together by myself. I wanted to explore the idea of how a conventional 2D square painting could be much more than just a painting, evolving into a superior 3D UV-LED painting. These 3D UV-LED paintings can be viewed as combinations of designer light installations and paintings. They light the room with a calming purple fluorescent glow that radiates a 395-405nm ultraviolet light, perfectly complementing your favourite room. They are truly unique, conversation-starting centrepieces. You can experience them with the UV-LEDs switched on or off; either way, the painting will look different, since I have combined fluorescent acrylics with manufactured oil paints to create a new kind of art product. Switch the lamps on or off, depending on your present mood. The idea started to take form when I was painting with fluorescent acrylics in 2002, and had to install an external 400W UV lamp to illuminate my whole studio with it to see my paintings in their characteristic state. I wanted to provide my customers a product that comes with the full experience, even if they did not have such a special light source. After recent inventions of the waterproof IP-65 UV-LED strips it became possible to create a dream product with built-in lights. Every 3D UV-LED painting comes with an electrical outlet and the mounts for you to hang it on your wall. The LEDs do not consume much electricity and they won’t get overheated. For UK or USA customers I can include custom electric plugs without extra cost.