Hanna Kanto

Hanna Kanto

The artistic work of visual artist Hanna Kanto is based on Northern themes. The starting point of her working process is her own research on the terrain. By practicing local sources of livelihood such as berry and mushroom picking and forest planting, she is collecting visual and contextual material content for her painting. The reality of her works is colored by animistic perspective, which on the other hand extends the viewers imagination. One part of the work is to collect plant and mineral samples for the natural pigment making process. By making pigments from natural materials she gets a concrete tangibility with the places she is exploring. The roots, plants and mineral samples she collects from the terrain are transformed into pigments. Through various chemical processes she studies their essence and tones, get a closer view and touch to the terrain. Hanna Kanto mainly works by painting on canvas but she has extended her expression to the three-dimensional ceramic elements. Sometimes ceramics are part of the paintings and sometimes they are shown as independent works.