Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Leena Nio

Leena Nio (-1982) is a painter born in Helsinki and currently living in Espoo, Finland.Nio graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and was awarded the Finnish Art Society’s Ducat Prize the same year.Nio is known for her ability to play with different techniques and perspectives through her oil paint.Her choice of theme and technique stems from her profound interest in painting and its potential.She makes use of traditional subject matter — such as portraiture and still life — but experiments with the materiality of paint, creating a range of impressions on a single canvas.Often her paintings look like blown up photos of knitted sweaters, needlepoint and buttons.More of Leena Nio’s delightful paintings can be found at https://leenanio.com/.