“Vint developed her own distinctive style early on in her career, and her works have largely remained true to her aesthetic endeavours, being timeless while at the same time constantly changing,” said Eero Kangor, an art critic and historian, providing a standard appraisal of Mare Vint’s works, which also hides a meaningful side. Park landscapes depict sacred rooms where something is always partially hidden from the viewer, beyond the boundaries, fences, gardens, and walls that serve to divide the image space into polarities. While digesting the impressions acquired from numerous trips, an attempt has been made to find common laws or ancient wisdom in architecture, landscape, and the urban space. The artist has also been inspired by images of the past recorded in the sub-consciousness, which have started to haunt or even acquired a symbolic meaning, as you can see by way of example of the series “Cities of the Past”. This way, Vint is grouped with a certain generation and company of artists who emerged in the 1960s, who are connected by a similar (life)philosophy and permanent values. Although it may be somewhat difficult to explain the importance of these values to people today, these also form the basis for a more tolerant and humane society. And although you could endlessly speculate about the message hidden within Vint’s works, you could still consider this enigmatic side that cannot be expressed in words the most important value of her works, Kangor believes.

Mare Vint (1942) studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts from 1962-1967, after which she worked as an art teacher. She has worked as a freelance artist since 1969. Since 1968, she has appeared regularly at personal and group exhibitions, with lithographs, silk-screens, ink and colour pencil drawings, both in Estonia and abroad. She has been honoured with many awards, and her works can be found in collections all over the world. She is a member of the Estonian Artists’ Association and the Association of Estonian Printmakers. The motifs of Mare Vint’s works have been landscapes, parks, birds, women, architecture, and nature; all of the techniques she began with also exist side by side today.