Anita Jensen has graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 1985. She works and lives in the Myllypuro Artist Village in Helsinki, Finland. She has been teaching intaglio printmaking at the Printmaking Studios at Aalto University in 15 years. The courses include intaglio, which is concentrated on new solutions of photo based techniques, such as photo polymer, ImagOn gravure techniques, and acrylic based techniques.
As an artist Jensen has used techniques with large printers and a variety of materials during the last 5 years. She has developed the techniques further by painting and by applying different presentation forms, for example, Japanese traditional book binding, scrolls and folding screens. Her work has been influenced by her many visits to Japan during the last 15 years. While having a resemblance to Japanese art and culture her works may look discreet at first, but actually they embody intense and passionate feelings. She often combines old photographs with natural motifs, which she has photographed herself.
She has been awarded numerous prizes in Finland and abroad.

“The variety of expression in Japanese culture, its aesthetical quality, a state of mind, which makes me see the beauty of everyday life, empowers me every time I visit Japan. Japanese aesthetics, its allusive quality and many symbols, impress me over and over again. The concept ‘small is beautiful’, as well as a kind of beauty which may become leathery and fade, inspire my work.

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