SOILE YLI-MÄYRY

Huvilakatu 5
FIN-15150 Lahti
Finland
Tel./ Fax + 358 3 7332807


SOILE YLI-MÄYRY of Finland, a painter for more than 25 years, makes her paintings by using a palette knife. She uses paint in three ways: a thin, even coat, thick lines and by scraping lines into the painted area, for a three-dimensional look. The main theme in Yli-Mäyry’s work is humanity and people’s alienation from nature in the urban world. Since her arts studies at the Arts Academy in Stuttgart in Germany (1972-75) she has had about 240 solo exhibitions in Japan, in China, in India, in Latin America, in the United States and in many countries in Europe.

Besides her career as a painter Mrs. Yli-Mäyry studies political science and has taken her Licentiate’s degree in Political Science at the University of Helsinki.