artist
Ulla Rantanen
- Finland, 1938
Ulla Rantanen studied at the Finnish Art Academy School (currently The Academy of Fine Arts) and began her artistic career in the early 1960s. Her paintings are sparse and low-key in the best sense of the word. Large clear shapes play against each other. The colour is strong, the pigment is almost physically tangible and watercolour technique’s individuality is reflected in the wake of the movement of water and the drop’s dash. Despite this simplicity and geometry, the paintings from the late 1980s and onwards carry a strength that evokes primordial states and magic. The interaction between light and matter bring to mind the forces acting in nature and which are visible in growth and transformation.
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