Tiina Eräpuu:
Outdoors – Graphic Art

Plants, trees and stones have always had a role in my visual vocabulary. Memories act as sketches and tools in portraying the plants of my life – thinking about the dear ones and surroundings I associate them with. My mothers ferns, rhubarbs and cress in our courtyard, the fir trees and moss rocks in Tuulos. Homely plants follow in my mind from the childhood area of wooden houses in Tampere to rural landscapes in the countryside and back to urban environment. The trip has been long and environments have been shaped, even destroyed. The perception of the world and also of myself change in the movement of time. 

Tiina Eräpuu (b. 1951) is a printmaker and illustrator based in Helsinki. Different print- making methods and their combinations as well as three dimensional book form are her central working methods. Eräpuu graduated from The University of Arts and Design (today Aalto University) with an MA from Graphic Design in 1982.