Gita Teearu 1934–2025 Pirita River. 1967

Gita Teearu graduated from ERKI with a specialization in graphic arts five years before the creation of the work on this page. She worked as a freelance artist and participated in numerous exhibitions. Her preferred technique became colored etching, as can be seen on this page. Teearu primarily worked with a brownish-green or brownish-blue palette, focusing mainly on depicting motifs from nature.

Pirita was not represented by Teearu by chance. She lived in Pirita-Kose, and what she observed on her walks often found expression in her graphic sheets. “The artist was particularly fond of depicting the Pirita River, which appears memorably in several of her graphic sheets,” noted Jüri Hain.