Riitta Hellén-Vuoti
Riitta Hellén-Vuoti (b. 1959) is a Finnish artist, living and working in Kuopio, Finland. By education she is a licensed medical specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. She has been artistic since her youth, and started dedicating more time to painting and poetry around the year 2000. Her artistic focuses remain in painting and poetry. Her artworks have been on display in various galleries around Finland since the year 2000 and internationally since 2020. She is now transitioning from working as a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist to a full - time artist. She is interested in - and inspired by - the human being and the never - ending complexities of life. In art it is possible to deal with all questions and concepts in a more intuitive way. Her paintings and poems are inner images. They can sometimes be even the same. She called them poem - painting
