User:Esko Kalviainen

Esko Kalevi Kalviainen, born September 11, 1960 in South Karelia region of Finland, is a Finnish painter whose work, notable for colourful landscapes have been popular in his native Finland as well as in California where he lived from 1982 until 1993. Esko Kalviainen started to draw as a child and began painting at the age of twelve. He was accepted to study at The Art Student´s League of New York in the early 1980's, but he soon moved to California to work independently while doing some odd jobs. Esko Kalviainen has also been an active writer of social democratic issues in Finland