Vargas Print Studio

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Vargas Print Studio

Taidegrafiikan teokset painetaan perinteisin metodein sekä korkealuokkaisia musteita ja hienolaatuisia arkistopapereita käyttäen. Ask for private courses.

Vargas Print Studio is an artist-run studio/workshop space focused on hand pulled printmaking techniques such as screen printing, intaglio and relief print located in Vallila, Helsinki. (English bellow)

Vargas Print Studio on erilaisiin painomenetelmiin, kuten silkki-, syvä- ja kohopainatukseen keskittynyt taiteilijavetoinen studio- ja workshoptila Helsingin Vallilassa. Kaikki työt valmistellaan,

viimeistellään ja signeerataan käsityönä taiteilijan toimesta. Studio pyrkii ylläpitämään tietoisuutta perinteisten painomenetelmien mahdollisuuksista nykytaiteessa sekä lisäämään kunnioitusta taidegrafiikan arvokkaita käytänteitä, kuten käsin vedostusta, pieniä painosmääriä sekä fyysistä työskentelyä kohtaan. Yksilöllisiä, rajoitetuin erin valmistettuja grafiikantöitä on myynnissä studiolla. Vargas Print Studio mahdollistaa myös elinikäisen oppimisen järjestämällä työpajoja erilaisille yleisöille, kuten vieraileville taiteilijoille sekä paikallisille yhteisöille, jotka ovat kiinnostuneita oppimaan painotekniikoista ja kartuttamaan yksityiskohtaisempaa tietoa eri menetelmistä. Kurssitiedot sekä hinnasto ovat saatavilla pyynnöstä. Vargas Print Studio enables lifelong learning practices with the organization of workshops for different audiences such as guest artists, children and local interested community who are given the possibility to learn techniques and gain more specific knowledge. Price lists on request. The workshop is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Sunday, subject to prior booking. Sessions are booked, at least, three days in advance by sending email to rita.vargas(a)gmail.com

03/04/2026

Happy Easter 🐑🌸
Rita Vargas
"Mother"
10-colour lithography, made , New Mexico, USA
Image size: 50 x 63 cm
Paper size: 55 x 69 cm
Frame size: 65,5 x 78,5 cm
Edition: 10 (only 3 available)
2024

26/03/2026

Yesterday I got a warmfelt message from a client who has purchased this artwork. Another client came also to my studio looking for more angels to add to her collection. Grateful for those who have been choosing my artwork, supporting me and my son in this journey of life, where every minute counts. It is sold out at the galleries but dont worry because there are some prints left (limited edition), and they will be after tomorrow 28.3. 11–18h ♡
Welcome to get your star, your personal sunshine, your warmth. I only wish this to everyone, not even thinking about anything else that does not contribute to the highest good. Too tired for anything else.
AIR (mind & soul of mankind, breath of life).
Woodcut on Hähnemühle paper
230g/m², 100% cotton, acid free
Image size: 53 x 39 cm
Paper size: 61 x 44 cm
Edition: 14 (+4 SP)
2023

06/03/2026

Rita Vargas
"European Travelogues", 2025
Etching on paper, 300g/m²
100% cotton, acid free.
Image size: 30 x 22 cm
Paper size: 42 x 33 cm
Edition: 5 (5/5)
New directions in artistic practice are emerging from generational autobiographical experience and research work made this last October 2025, , Rome (Oct 2025), with support from and .
This experience and reflection on colonialism in African and South American contexts, has been conflicting in so many fronts and from different perspectives. It may cause discomfort or unpleasant feelings among some readers, which I cannot control as it makes me feel also unconfortable.
For centuries, palm trees appeared in European travelogues as symbols of the "exotic", shaping colonial imaginaries of African and South American landscapes. This etching revisits that visual tradition while questioning how such images continue to circulate today, even within contemporary critiques of colonial histories. Printed in red, the image evokes traces of memory, violence, and the layered histories embedded in these landscapes.
The work is also biographical as I belong to the last generation of a Portuguese colonial family born in Angola, whose parents helped build infrastructures in the country before being expelled after independence. They were born there. My mother, my father, my sister, my aunt, many friends.

05/03/2026

Exactly 2 years ago ♡
It was Spring in Albuquerque. The blossoming in front of Tamarind Institute was beautiful and it inspired the colour scheme for the litograph edition "Mother". Grateful for this beautiful collaboration, mutual learning curve, encounters and experience in New Mexico, a magical place.

22/01/2026

Strong winds on pine and wild lavander. Stop out after aquatint so I can move forward with acid. Work-in-progress.

21/01/2026

It took me a while to get this video done, and more will come. I am trying to show my creative process, how my art happens and how I feel at home in Finland. As a fish in the water, printmakimg for me always has been an easy way to express my feelings in silence, my worries and my longing for a land where nature is protected, but being ruined by tourism. I am trying to bring to Finland a little impression of what remains from that Nature, something that makes me feel safe, and at home – even of I am not originally from Finland. In this video I show how to prepare a plate for softground. This process is much slower and it takes many hours to complete, in fact, many days. This has been an ongoing serie of plates from the same land that started about 6 years ago. The plates are not finished yet, but the basic are revealed for future generations. These plants came with me from Portugal and have been travelling to Central Finland to be etched on a city where I have worked for 10 years. A city where I have defended a doctoral thesis and partly raised a little boy as a single mother. It is always very lovely to return to ♡ Thank you for keeping me close ♡

16/01/2026

Over and over again. Last 16 years in Finland doing work with printmaking. I am deeply grateful for every single moment of joy and crazy times that this knowledge has had given to me. Throughout these years, I have also lost count on the amount of people I have shared this methodology. Many of the people who passed through me, are now flourishing and enjoying this road. This seems to be a lifetime journey since the combination and possibilities of working with the print are infinite. My lifetime will not be enough to explore it as much as I want to as year by year, my hands start loosing its accurate steady line – bringing more freedom of expression too. As to the time and its limitations, so does the physical existence suffers from its passage. I am reaching an interesting point by this time, after spending over 20 years in this working method, besides stone sculpture, light work and other installations in situ. Nethertheless, just wanted to mention and celebrate one more year returning to a place , where I have invested my energy since 2011. This year is 2026. Thank you universe for letting me continuing this path.

20/12/2025

!!!! LAST DAY !!!! to visit "RITES OF SILENCE – Selected Works" art exhibition in Helsinki ♡
Not all art fits into categories and not all voices are confortable to frame. Some artworks live first in people's homes, in daily life, in lived experience –before they enter texts or institutions. Critical attention is one form of dialogue, but not the only one. I am grateful for every viewer, collector, and colleague who engaged deeply with this woodcut – in words, in presence and in trust. ♡
Sometimes silence speaks too.
Tomorrow, Sunday, is the last day of this exhibition. Welcome ♡
"Constellarions" (detail), 2025
Woodcut on Hähnemühle antique paper
300 g/m², 100% cotton, acid-free
Hand finished, numbered and signed by the artist
Edition: 2.
Deckled edges
Framed with white natural wood box, museum glass
Price under request to +358503622091 (Galleria G)
📍 Studio G, Suomen Taidegraafikot
Sun 12–4pm
📷: Rita Vargas

18/12/2025

~ From the woodcut to the exhibition ~
3days left to enjoy "RITES OF SILENCE – Selected Works" exhibition in Helsinki ♡
This woodcut started at the terrace of in Rome, where the whole city can be seen while the light green parrots fly to catch the last warmth of the sunset. It was a calm evening and my first work with the plate. The plate was finished later at in Helsinki and then editions were printed. From the Finnish Institute in Rome to Helsinki. The subject is inspired by Peter Paul Rubens' paintings where he portrays nymphs. Rubens also worked with intaglio.
"Nymphs Ascending from the Sea"
Woodcut on Hähnemühle antique paper
300 g/m², 100% cotton, acid-free
Paper size 32 x 32 cm
Image size 21 x 24 cm
Hand finished, numbered and signed by the artist
Edition: 12.
Deckled edges
Framed with white natural wood box, normal glass.
Price under request to +358503622091 (Galleria G)
Exhibition is open until December 21st.
📍 Studio G, Suomen Taidegraafikot
Avoinna ti–pe klo 12–17 ja la–su klo 12–16
Open Tue–Fri 12–5pm, Sat–Sun 12–4pm
📷: Rita Vargas

17/12/2025

LAST WEEK of the exhibition RITES OF SILENCE – Selected Works.
Based on the myth of Jupiter and Antiope and inspired by Anthony Van Dyck, I have carved two Finnish birch plates with their figures in the foreground. Jupiter, also represented by the eagle, is slowly awakening the sleeping Antiope. She has fallen asleep in the forest, where nature offered shelter. I have fallen in love by a story about seduction.
Only after carving these plates and printing three different editions did I realize that many other artists—such as Correggio, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, and Francisco de Goya—have also depicted this mythological scene.
"Jupiter and Antiope"
Woodcut
Image size: 70 x 55 cm
Paper size: 50 x 50 cm
Frame size: 78 x 68 cm
Edition: 5
Framed
2024
Exhibition is open until December 21st.
📍 Studio G, Suomen Taidegraafikot
Avoinna ti–pe klo 12–17 ja la–su klo 12–16
Open Tue–Fri 12–5pm, Sat–Sun 12–4pm
📷: Rita Vargas

15/12/2025

"Seven of Hearts" is part of the exhibition RITES OF SILENCE – Selected Works
This etching is a combination of 4 different plates portraying themes of motherhood, playfulness and naughtiness. It is a reminder of the importance of letting go. The hearts are inspired by my research work in Rome, the French playing cards and cartomacy. The Seven of Hearts seems to be symbolically representing the core of human connections and emotions, such as love and joy.
"Seven of Hearts"
Etching and chine-collé
Image size: 47 x 49 cm
Paper size: 73 x 68 cm
Frame size: 82,5 x 78 cm
Edition: Unique (1/1)
2024
Exhibition is open until December 21st.
📍 Studio G, Suomen Taidegraafikot
Avoinna ti–pe klo 12–17 ja la–su klo 12–16
Open Tue–Fri 12–5pm, Sat–Sun 12–4pm
📷: Rita Vargas

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