AILI VINT: ART, SEA & ME

Hello, Dear Visitor! 

I am Aili Vint, an artist from Estonia, Europe. I was born in a small town named Rakvere, in the year 1941. So I have come from the middle of the last century.

Welcome to my Home Page!

Come in, the door is open! Feel at home! I’m delighted to see you! Sit down, let’s talk about life and creation.”

The word HOME evokes images of a sacred space, a warm light that soothes the depths of one’s Soul and beckons to explore inner landscapes.
So I will use Website instead of the word Home Page, something that carries feelings of beauty, emotion, and what the Soul yearns for.

My space is filled with my life's works and a “menu,” where every piece invites you to taste and experience.

I am now retired, but my romantic spirit whispers that artists never age, never stop creating—they continue until the last brushstroke or chisel cut, standing firm amidst layers of paint and piles of stone.

Sometimes it amuses me to picture myself as a circus horse (having come from the middle of the last century) contentedly grazing in a field. When I hear the sound of circus music echoing in the distance, my heart springs to life, and I perform old tricks with joyful abandon.

Me & the Sea

I feel lucky to have had the Sea as a source of inspiration and my model for over 70 years.
Nothing moves me like the beauty of the Sea with all its wild natural elements. I want to show my painted seascapes, with moods of different senses from extreme to extreme, and tell true stories about them.

For me, the Sea is like a living, spontaneous masterpiece — turbulent and unpredictable, stirring conflicting feelings within us all. Sometimes it pushes us cruelly away, leaving us in silence for years, and then, in moments of grace, beautifully pulls us close again. The Sea simply is. It makes its choices freely, just as art does — wild and limitless.

The Sea has my endless gratitude forever.

Sometimes I feel as I am like the Sea - wild and limitless, but also fragile and caring.

So let’s see what other’s have been saying about me.

Heie Treier, art scholar:

“Aili Vint's work can be called a search for harmony in a world where a person's relationships with themselves and with other people, social relations, and also the relationship between man and technology have lost their balance. The artist sees a way out in creating a new relationship with nature, she pursues this in all her activities and then tries to share her discoveries generously with everyone who wants to hear.

Aili Vint has gone through a long journey in search of harmony, which is reflected in both her life and art. On this journey, she has been spiritually helped by several ancient wisdoms and healing systems, starting with Carlos Castaneda.” 

“Aili Vint creates art from the sacred. As a marine painter, she has been able to give more meanings than anyone else in Estonian art. Artist Aili Vint is a moment-catcher. In nature, everything is in motion, and what the artist's eye catches at one unexpected moment, something existential and essential, is gone the next. All that remains is the experience felt by a single person, who has the power to revive the moment, to value and amplify the primal beauty of nature.

This is an extremely direct approach to the art object, and the result allows for contact with the most diverse audience – a rather unusual phenomenon in contemporary high art at all.”

Jaan Kruusvall, estonian writer:

"The world that Aili Vint creates is delicate and elusive, easily vulnerable and damaged. Just like the rest of the world. And just like a person's inner world."

Our daughter Eva-Maria:

“Aili has many professions. Artist, interior designer, builder, gardener, teacher, traveler… Who she really is depends on the day, the situation and the need. She probably doesn't even know it exactly herself. When she was little, she wanted to become a tiger tamer. So that's not out of the question either. In any case, she's a very colorful person.”

My sister-in-law, Kadi:

Aili is the only artist who paints truly transparent water. Just try it, it’s impossible!

I think now it's time to go to my pages and wonder what I have accomplished in my life.

Yours,

Aili Vint