Maarit Kontiainen is a Finnish artist with her lifelong fascination for nature and animals.
Her whimsical and nordic wintery art springs from her childhood memories and athmosphere from rural countryside and forests.
She graduated as a painter in 1987, and has had several art exhibitions since 1984 in Finland and abroad (Japan, India).
She has also made study trips in many parts of Asia and Africa.
She has stockists (art prints and greeting cards etc.) in the UK, USA, Germany and South Korea.
She lives and works in Levi, Lapland.
Her whimsical and nordic wintery art springs from her childhood memories and athmosphere from rural countryside and forests.
She graduated as a painter in 1987, and has had several art exhibitions since 1984 in Finland and abroad (Japan, India).
She has also made study trips in many parts of Asia and Africa.
She has stockists (art prints and greeting cards etc.) in the UK, USA, Germany and South Korea.
She lives and works in Levi, Lapland.
Artist Maarit Kontiainen
