Meet The Artist

The theme of Juho Karjalainen’s art is human body.

During the last forty years Karjalainen has explored his own aquatint method, in which the image is painted with acid on a resin grounded brass plate. Karjalainen's aquatint technique reminds of oriental ink painting or water colour.

The aim is lightness despite the multistageous and laborious nature of the technique itself.

An successful print, as the artist himself has stated, is like “the floping of wet snow from the roof in the late Winter time”.

  • Born 1947, in Säräisniemi, Finland
    Printmaker - Calligrapher - Painter - Innovator

Kirjoja - Books

Juho Karjalainen: Taidegraafikko (Bilingual Finnish and English Edition). Art Exhibition from Jyväskylän ArtMuseum and Lappenrannan ArtMuseum Bookwell 2017 - 88 pages

Juho Karjalainen, Kenneth Söderlund: Taidelitografia: kivipiirros, offsetlitografia (Finnish Edition).
Taideteollinen korkeakoulu, 2001 - 208 pages

Opas kivipiirros-litografiatekniikkaan
*laakapainomenetelmän historiaa, *litografia eli laakapainomenetelmä, *kivipiirros, *kiven hionta, *piirtäminen kivelle, *painokuntoon laitto *'vedostusvaikeuksia*,*siirtopainomenetelmä, *värilitografia, *painovärit, *metallilevylitografia, *valotusmenetelmät, *tekniikkamuunnelmia

Juho Karjalainen: Kivipiirros/Litografia (Finnish Edition) . Luova Grafiikka ry. Kovakantinen, kuvitettu.