Tuula Lehtinen - Coronation II: Queen Charlotte

Tuula Lehtinen (b. 1956 Tampere) emphasizes the importance of beauty in her work and is known as a bold artist who dares to paint beautiful things. Her oil paintings combine influences from modernism, Baroque, and Rococo, with feminine and decorative elements. The works are partly surreal and mysterious, yet always precise and elegant.

Lehtinen’s practice is grounded in exceptional classical painting skills, enabling her to replicate the precision of 17th- and 18th-century floral and courtly painting. At the same time, her contemporary approach introduces abstraction and digital-like effects, where beauty dissolves into colors, lines, and patterns, reminiscent of a corrupted digital file.