At exhibition in Central Gallery, Tampere Contact ANJA SIIMES Visual Artist anjasiimes@icloud.com www.anjasiimes.art Instagram: @anjasiimes Facebook: Anja Siimes LinkedIn: Anja Siimes
Artist in her old studio
Artist Statement I love abstract expressionism. Through expressive painting, I aim to discover something new that carries emotional significance. I let brushes and intuition guide the process, allowing chance and spontaneity to shape my acrylic paintings on canvas. Art that emerges in a semiotic, sensory-affective in-between space is expressed through the shared verbal world, but rooted in bodily early layers. In resent series of paintings, I explore, through imagination and painting, my early separation from maternal interaction, birth to a girl and becoming an artist. Biography Anja Siimes has received her artistic education at the Alfa-Art school in Helsinki, Finland. Her academic education includes gynecology, psychoanalysis and research on fetal and maternal cardiovascular relationship. Abstract expressionism is close to Anja Siimes’ heart. She loves colors, spontaneity and instinctiveness. In her current paintings, she studies ”psychoanalytically” herself by painting so early experiences of her life which cannot be remembered, becoming a girl and an artist. She is an abstract expressionist of today. Curriculum Vitae ANJA SIIMES Contemporary Expressionist Painter Helsinki, Finland Art Education Alfa-Art School, Helsinki 2023 Visual Artist Academic Education University of Helsinki 2002 Psychotherapist and Group analyst 1983 Perinatologist 1978 Gynecologist 1977 PhD 1968 MD University of Turku, Finland 1980-1990 Research on Fetal and neonatal heart rate variability University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Cardiovascular Research Institute 1971-1974 Research Fellow, Focus: Fetal Physiology Visual Projects 2025 Erilliseksi, itseksi poster and paintings presented at Congress of Body in Psycho- and Art Therapies, Linnasmäki, Turku 1995 From a Girl to a Woman, Artwork series presented at International Gynecological Congress, Austria, Children’s Hospital, Helsinki and at University of Art and Design, Helsinki 1994-1995 Analytic Art Psychotherapy Group, Helsinki 1992-1994 Art therapy research for women with premenstrual symptoms (with Liisa Girard), Helsinki Artbooks Differentiation, Becoming Myself, Mareart, Bookcover, Espoo / Seinäjoki, 2025 Erilliseksi, itseksi, Kuvatkirjaksi.fi, Helsinki, 2024 Semiotic khora, Kuvatkirjaksi.fi, Helsinki, 2023 (4. edition, 2024) Publications "Ajatuksia Johannes Lehtosen kirjasta Olemassaolon tunne", Art Psychotherapy 2025, The 50-th anniversary publications of The Finnish Art Psychotherapy Association. ed. Kirsi Huttula, Helsinki, 2025 "Arkaaiset prosessit ryhmässä (Archaic Processes in Group)", eds. Lindroos, Heidi & Ulrica Segercrantz. In: Yksilöksi ryhmässä, Gaudeamus, pp, 110-142, Helsinki, 2009 "Työnohjaus lääkäreiden Balint-ryhmissä (Supervision in Doctors’ Balint Groups)", eds. Eeva Makkonen, Marja Nick & Anja Siimes, Gaudeamus, Helsinki, 1996 Maternal and Fetal Cardiovascular and Metabolic Responses to Beta-Adrenergic Stimulation, PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki, 1977 Memberships Wyborg Artists’ Society Finnish Art Psychotherapy Association Helsinki Art Association Studio Melko Artwork in Collections Private collections in Finland, New Zealand and South Africa Contact anjasiimes@icloud.com Instagram: @anjasiimes | Facebook: Anja Siimes | LinkedIn: Anja Siimes
At Art Fair Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

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