Art SPY

05-03-2008

Welcome to this week’s Art SPY

‘Art SPY’ brings you a selection of various Artists and Galleries that we find simply delightful!

This week Art SPY previews an artist by the name Sanna Annukka. Sanna has some beautiful artwork such as silk screen prints, lithographs and is soon to reveal her new jewellery collection in collaboration with Giles Reeve, so watch this space.

I’m sure you will agree that Sanna’s work is delightful to look at. For me her designs are simple yet very dramatic! Her work heavily features nature and she has used this in many area’s of her artwork.

Artist: Sanna Annuka

I’m an illustrator and printmaker with a love for nature and folklore. I’m half Finnish and half English. I spent many summers throughout my childhood in Paltaniemi, a village in Finland, swimming and fishing in Oulujarvi and exploring the forests. I also travelled to Lapland, camping by artic rivers enjoying the midnight sun. The forests, lakes and wildlife of where I grew up heavily inspire my work. Lapland is one of my favourite places on earth and also Chamonix (in France) where I go snowboarding most years.

Another major influence is Finland’s national epic known as The Kalevala, a collection of folklore songs which I find quite magical. My new range of prints coming out this year will depict ten different scenes from the Kalevala.

I graduated with a BA Hons in Illustration from the University of Brighton in July 2005. My speciality during the final year of university became silkscreen printing. During this time I created a range of limited edition silkscreen prints of my ‘Maiden’ designs (now every year two new ‘Maiden’ characters will get printed as an ongoing range).

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To View Sanna’s portfolio of work from: Music, Icons, Editorial, Patterns and Other click here

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