About

Alexandra Raita is a Helsinki-based artist working primarily on large, handmade canvases. Using acrylics, oil pastels, and spray paint, she creates layered compositions that explore dimension and depth. Bold colour palettes and confident brushstrokes form the foundation of her visual language.

Her work is driven by emotion, expressing feelings that are difficult to put into words, while exploring themes of connection, identity, and nature, and the balance between them.

Her preferred place to paint is in the Finnish countryside, at summer house in Somero, which remains her haven, where she truly feels at peace. Surrounded by forest and nature, the sound of the wind moving through the trees and the quietness of the landscape are something you have to experience for yourself.

During the pandemic, the countryside became an escape and a place where she spent long periods painting and built her first stretch canvases and frames by hand, which she still does to this day and which plays a key role in her large-scale works.

Today, Raita works between the Finnish countryside and her studio in Ullanlinna, in the heart of Helsinki. Moving between these two contrasting environments, is an essential part of her creative process.