Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

June 28th, 2008

Featured Artist - Klaus Haapaniemi

There is a beautiful ethnic, folklore and fairytale quality about this illustrator’s work and his illustrations are totally devine.

Finnish born, now London based artist, Klaus Haapaniemi became interested in illustration after seeing some well-designed Russian animations on TV when he was only eight years old. After graduating from Lahti Design Institute, Klaus lived in Italy where he worked as a key print designer for Diesel and Diesel Stylelab. Klaus’s long list of commercial clients include print collections for Clements Ribeiro, Cacharel, Marimekko and Levis, plus store identity for Selfridges, an ever expanding range of his own published books plus ceramics and wall tapestry collections.

“Kauris”

“Oravat”

“Castle Wall” Mural

“Hauki”

“Taika Cup Blue”

Klaus’s website is under construction but you can see more of this work at Big Active

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By Lesley Smitheringale