Biography
Tiina Osara is a Finnish Visual Artist and Actionpainter. She is known both for her large-scale abstract, colourful and multilayered paintings, and photo- and videoinstallations.
Her special arena is action-painting,performing live in classical concerts, where Osara transfers her musical impressions in real time to the canvas, in front of the audience.
Classical music is for the most part her main subject when painting. Having a degree in Physiotherapy helped Osara to understand both the meaning of motion and the kinestetic sense as tools of expression. This also led to the large scale of her paintings, which liberates her work towards more holistic and physical expression.
Osara studied Fine Arts in Art School Maa participating in their Professional program from 1993 to 1996, graduated as Bachelor of Visual Arts from her studies between 2006 to 2008, and specialised in Photography Art from 2009 to 2010 in Tampere University of Applied Sciences.
Osara has held both private exhibitions, and participated in group exhibitions, both in Finland and elsewhere in Europe, since 1996.
Since 2010 the main work has been action-painting, the concerts has been done around the world. the corona epidemic stopped the concerts and transferred her work back to the traditional form/way
Tiina Osara has lived and worked in France since 2013.