Nerva (artist)

Nerva is a graphic artist, currently living in Estonia. He currently works in the giclee style, although early in his career he completed around 100 acrylic paintings. Nerva's other products include two books of art, several calendars, and a range of notecards. Nerva's paintings have been displayed in personal exhibitions in Estonia, Latvia and Finland.

About Nerva

Nerva was born on Sept. 16, 1972, in Karilatsi (a small village in South Estonia). His mother was a textile artist, and his sister a fashion designer. Nerva was trained as a composer, and has released an album of original music. His career as an artist began in 1998; the breakthrough came in 2002, when his giclee works began to receive recognition in Estonia.

Nerva currently lives in Maaritsa, Estonia, with his wife and three children. He is working full time as an artist, as well as pursuing side projects such as interior design (including the offices of several IT companies in Tartu) and website design.

Nerva's Works

While Nerva's early, acrylic paintings were unique, his recent works completed in giclee have relatively large runs, usually between 25 and 250 copies of each work. Every copy is individually signed and numbered. Although most works are fairly large in size, Nerva also has a line of minigraphics, including both original designs and resized versions of some large-scale paintings. The range of postcards, mostly distributed through the Estonian national postal agency's retail outlets, feature fragments of popular artworks.

Nerva's first book, "Sense of the Sun"/"Päikese Puudutus" (ISBN 9949-10-143-3) came out in 2003. It was bilingual, in English and Estonian, and consisted of reproductions of Nerva artworks accompanied by fairytale-style short stories, commenting on the picture or explaining its background.