Violeta Marroquín de Björkas

paints on silk with aquarelle tecnics. She describes herself as a naivistic painter, who uses strong, happy colors: ”The most important thing for me when I am painting, is to show imagines with simple motives from the daily life, nature, movements, contrasts, light, fantasy and reality. Blending all this is my tool to be able to create pictures, which, although they have naivistic, modern features, tell much about things that many people have forgotten that still exist; as example it is not that painful beeing alone, children can still play, and so on. The base for my artistry is that my paintings create reactions amongst them who look at my art – that might be happiness, good humour, interest for life or for my two countries.”

Violeta, born 1976, has been painting since youth, and as child she also got education in arts, but she chose to study comunications at the university. She moved to Finland in November 2002, studied both Swedish and Finnish, and started to paint more and more.

In August 2005 she had her first exhibition during The Night of Art in the town of Vaasa. The exhibition ”My Country with my Eyes” composed of more than 15 paintings and was very well seen. Inspired by the success Violeta started painting more eagerly and until the Björkas family returned to Guatemala in November 2006 not only did a lot of Finnish people in many places but even Estonians have the opportunity to take part of the colorful and inspiring art of Violeta. See the enclosed information about her exhibitions.

Therefore the art of Violeta can now be admired in many private homes as well as on many walls in public buildings and offices all around Finland – from Helsinki and Turku in the south to Vaasa and Kokkola in the north. It´s not only in Finland that the art of Violeta make people happy as her paintings also have found buyers and admirores in both Stockholm and Copenhagen.

Revues

Vasabladet, in November 2005: ”In the colorful paintings of Violeta Marroquín one can almost feel the noise, the senses and the warmth of the sun.”
Pohjalainen, in April 2006: ”In her motives she combines fantasy and real landscapes, as the jungle and the volcanoes or the woods in Finland during the autumn (fall). The brilliant colors, blended with each other, glow and make us in a good mood.
Länsi Väylä, in September 2006: ”The white mountains of snow and the mushrooms which glow of colors in the autumn have inspired Marroquín. Strong colors also shine in the art of Marroquín. She paints on silk with strong colors and describes herself as a naivistic painter.”

Yvonne and Violeta	Exhibtion in Vaasa, Finlandia April 2006	Exhibtion in Vaasa, Finlandia April 2006	Exhibition in Espoo, Finlandia, September 2006

Exhibitions:
August 2005: Café August, Vaasa
September 2005: Malax hvc, Malax
October 2005: EFÖ, Vaasa
November 2005: Café Ernst, Vaasa
April 2006: Ateljé Torni, Vaasa
May 2006: Smedsby Dagcenter, Smedsby
June 2006: Pärnu, Estland (samutställning Vasa Konstklubb)
August 2006: Innopolis, Espoo
September 2006: Biblioteket, Korsnäs