Kauppi, Hannu

doctoral student, Aalto University School of Art and Design, Department of Art.

Artist, painter, art teacher. More

Interest in arts and in research. Art teacher for 36 years in several art schools and institutions. Several international and Finnish exhibitions in 40 years. Active member of several international and Finnish art unions and associations. Curator of international and Finnish art projects and exhibitions. The teacher of ”Small Art Academy”.

Doctoral thesis: Living in Landscape. What is happening when I am painting landscape? The inquiry of painting process. Personal in landscape. Recollection, experience and perception. Tacit knowledge and aesthetical experience. Materiality of painting. Time and moving landscape. In my artistic work dreams, experiences in nature, photos, stories, and art trips have made the permanent reactions to my paintings. Landscape can be region or sight, but also painting, poem, written description or a cultural produced text. Environment is personal.  It will born when the meanings like feelings, hopes, fears, memories are linked to it. Environment is not only physical. Memory is a pictorial tool for me. It brings back old odours of the certain landscape.

Interest areas: Landscape painting, artistic thinking and research, phenomenologic and pragmatic research.