Janne Jaaskelainen, Painter and Sculptor for #tiacartintouch

Meaningful, insightful, fun, and full of awareness. This is how this conversation with Janne Jaaskelainen was.

To see more of Janne's work and hear the story behind a 5-year painting project, check out the film: "Northbound - the art of Janne Jääskeläinen" on the link below, you will absolutely love it. Northbound: The Art of Janne Jääskeläinen: https://youtu.be/WJpZKeLLUXs

Janne Jaaskelainen is an artist working primarily in oils. He studied and taught classical art extensively in Florence, Italy for nearly 10 years prior to returning home to Finland. He describes his work as a type of journey into a dark imaginary world that acts largely as a symbolistic representation of some of the harsher aspects of the nature of his native country. Into this landscape, he often places individual travelers or groups of people dealing with both timeless and contemporary challenges that humankind is facing. In his creative process, Jaaskelainen is driven by a desire to construct a world of ones own, a sort of stage for the narrative or the sentiment he wishes to express in each piece. This coupled with a deep fascination with the less naturalistic periods of classical art, such as the Renaissance, the Baroque and the symbolists of the 19th century, makes him emphasize the use of imagination and exaggeration of both the landscape and the human form in his work.