Veera Kaamos Pitkänen’s main technique is hand cut paper collage. She uses solely recycled materials, pairing up Renaissance painting with scientific contemporary photography. Images of space, nature, architecture and fashion merge seamlessly with classic works of art. Carefully arranged compositions, bold choices of colour and attention to detail is typical to her work.

Pitkänen draws inspiration from world mythologies, art history, literature, biology and the esoteric. As a deep ecologist, she sources all of the materials for her collage works from bins, recycling centres and flea markets. The choice of material is often reflected in her artworks that ponder on themes of rejection, loneliness and nature’s distress. Self-taught in her intricate collage techniques, Pitkänen adopts the perspective of an outsider in society.

Veera Kaamos Pitkänen (b.1984) is a Finnish artist. She has lived in Italy and Sweden, studied arts in University of Art and Design Helsinki, Estonian Academy of Arts and Gerlesborg Bohuslän in Sweden. Currently Pitkänen works and resides in Southern Finland and the UK. She is a member of Espoo Artists’ Guild and a vice chairman in Espoo Visual Artists -both professional Finnish artists’ societies.

Pitkänen has exhibited her work in galleries, biennials and museums in Finland, Sweden, Italy and Germany. She was curated to represent Finland in Biennale Di Carta IV in Schio, Italy. Currently she works towards a solo exhibition in Särestöniemi Museum in Finnish Lapland in 2020. In addition to exhibitions, her artwork has appeared in various publications and formats in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Poland, USA, Italy and Netherlands.

Pitkänen has works in the collection of the municipality of Schio (Italy), Helsinki Saskia Organization, private collections and in public locations in Helsinki and Espoo, Finland. In 2020, she won first prize on the competition for a public artwork in Karhusuo Art Library in Espoo, Finland.