EILA MINKKINEN
Eila Minkkinen has made an extensive career as a silver smith as well as a sculptress. In the 1980’s she moved from silver jewellery and the tradition of small-scale production of metal handicraft to reliefs, sculptures and cross-arts. In her works Minkkinen has combined traditional techniques of metal handling – repoussage-embossing, for example – with different dying methods thus creating sculptures of a new kind.