Soile Yli-Mäyry

Soile Yli-Mäyry is a contemporary artist born to Finnish farmers who were deaf mutes. An interpreter for her parents, her mother tongue was a language of signs – and her work often uses imagery of iconic forms as a way to communicate.

Art critics have described her subject matter as the “climate of the soul” and compared her works to Chagall, Klimt, Klee, Miro, Schiele and Kokoschka, with whom she studied. She brings elements of Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism into a mix of color bursts, raw emotion and a near mystical evocation of the world she occupies.

Yli-Mäyry has exhibited in 300 solo shows in 30 countries and is included in numerous public and private collections in Europe, North and South America and China.

Submitted by Walter Wickiser Gallery