About

Hi! My name is Aina Melis and I am the mind and the hands behind BcnTku Art Studio.

I´m a Mallorcan artist, graduated in Fine Arts at the university in Barcelona, which is the place I love the most, and were I lived for many years. That is the BCN in BcnTku. Later on I moved to Turku in the south-west Finland, were I have formed my family and started this project, thats the TKU.

I use both basic shapes and mainly primary colours to fill the empty space, so the lines fluid together leading to precise and balanced geometric compositions where the ideas of symmetry-asymmetry and pulling and letting go play the main role. The use of classic minimalistic compositions and my love for suprematism, and the Bauhaus ideas and aesthetics, show constantly in my work.

Lately, my willing for experimenting in arts has lead me to translate my visual ideas into another of my favourite techniques, the linocut printing, which i love. I am a person of process and printing its all about the process.

I am a mother of two small ones, and I share the studio and life with the father of them, who also happens to be a creative mind. I love to listen loud music and drink lots of tea whilst I work.

ALAINE, is a self-taught artist with a strong graffiti background. His layering and destructive techniques are born in the street art practice, where covering former pieces, ripping paper and fast tagging are needed skills, all of those strongly united in his particular style.

Although our styles and compositions are visually opposite, we both have influenced mutually and developed together and nowadays our works complement and balance each other’s and they both can be found in this space.