Meeta and Lena have been art teachers in Elva for over ten years. Meeta teaches at the Elva Hobby and Training Centre, while Lena teaches at Elva Gymnasium.
Meeta Veigel graduated from Tartu Art School in 2011 and earned a degree in painting from the University of Tartu in 2016. Meeta is a person of colors, animals, and gardens. Her vibrant life is filled with pets, plants and bees, who also serve as her creative partners in art. Her recent focus is on the co-creation between humans and bees. Beyond the painting medium, Meeta has long been drawn toward exploring form and moving beyond surface-level expression.
Lena Leonovitš graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1996 as an interior architect.
Lena enjoys playing with form and space, working with installations, graphic art, and ceramic shapes. Her favorites are insects, especially spiders.
Both artists share a deep love for the forest and nature, which gives them balance and inspiration alongside the demands of teaching. They have both studied classical painting techniques at the Konrad Mägi Studio in Tartu.
They also create functional ceramics. In the summer, you’ll find them painting in the forest, they practically live there!
The exhibition showcases the artists’ visions of nature, its forms, and forest dwellers, seen through both joyful and melancholic, colorful and colorless lenses.
