Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2014

KatiLehti
www.katilehti.blogspot.com
Courtship Dance
tempera, ink, and
oil on canvas
100x100 cm
2012
Kati Lehti is a Finnish visual artist, born in 1977. She has been influenced
by the surrealists, magical realists, and outsider artists, as for
example. Also, literature has a great impact on her visual work. In her
early childhood her mother put a pencil in her hand as soon as she
learned to sit up properly. She began painting with gouache at kindergarten
age. At the age of 4, she dreamed of becoming an artist, a writer,
and a teacher, especially admiring sculptors greatly. In her thirties, she
started to feel an overriding need for painting and working with visual
arts. Up to that point, she has mainly
been painting in secrecy, but as of then
she began to show her work to the public.
From 2011 on, she’s had several art
exhibitions annually. She’d like to see
that her work be strong yet sensitive,
and somehow comforting. She’d like
to create her own mythic atmosphere
in her works. Kati Lehti is self-educated
and interested in any kind of contemporary
art.
Fat Baby
tempera, ink,
and oil on canvas
100x100 cm
2012
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