Belliisi Seenemaa
Estonia
Biography
Artist Belliisi Seenemaa comes from Estonia; her artistic pursuits encompass a rich spectrum of techniques and themes, including illustration, painting, accessories and textile art. Her creative journey has been experimental and combining different techniques.
Over the past years, Belliisis focus has been on exploring eco-printing and dyeing with natural pigments and dyes. And also delving into the fascinating realms of primal and ritualistic subjects, nature resources, and symbolism.
In addition to these explorations, she has a passion for vintage, kitsch and romanticism.
So it is no surprise for her to take a turn from very nature based expression to pop-art or synthetic fairytales.
“I love crafting unique spaces through both physical and image-based mediums, giving form to artistic expression.
My educational background includes studies in textile and art pedagogy at Tartu Art College Pallas, as well as a specialization in decoration and style from Tartu Art School. As an addition to my art studies, I have also a background of transpersonal psychology and hypnotherapy studies which I combine with art therapy in groupworks and workshops.
Right now I am studying breathwork as a therapeutic tool and have my own praxis in Tallinn and Tartu, where I do one to one sessions.
In my art I am led right now by Nostalgia, old techniques and eco-friendly or plant based technologies."
Project
“The Ones on the Other Side” by Belliisi Seenemaa is a contemplative photographic and cyanotype-based art project rooted in personal loss, memory and inter-generational presence. The work originated from the artist’s encounter with an old, fading family photograph of her great-grandfather and expanded into a collaborative series in which people contributed images and objects connected to relatives who have passed away, whose stories are partially forgotten, or who were never born.
Seenemaa uses the cyanotype process — an early photographic method developed with sunlight that produces deep blue imagery — to create a visual dialogue between life and absence, presence and memory. The blue tones serve as a symbolic bridge to the unseen, emphasising emotional resonance and the fragile permanence of remembrance.
