The Bear and Forest Animals: Watercolours by Vasili Reskalenko

The watercolour series "The Bear and Forest Animals" was created in 1998-99 as illustrations for a fairy tale book that was never published with these images. The works were displayed at the Oulu Art Museum's travelling exhibition in 2004, and are now shown at Suomenlinna Library. Some of the watercolours from the series have since found new homes.

Artist Vasili Reskalenko was born and raised in the city of Mykolajiv in southern Ukraine. He studied at the Mykolajiv School of Art, the Crimean School of Art, and the Repin Institute in Leningrad. In Oulu he has worked and taught since 1987, and currently lives and paints on Suomenlinna.