Ruth Vilmi’s Art Statement
Painting has always been a passion for me, and even more so during the last twelve years. At school, my art teacher told me that my work was naive and reminded her of the English painter L.S.Lowry. My work is probably still rather naive, but also quite impressionistic or post-impressionistic. I spent my childhood in England, and I also worked in France, and Nigeria as a young adult, and did teaching practice in Malta before settling in Finland. I believe that my early experiences in these countries still influence my choice of colours, which...more
