Teuvo Salminen was born in Rauma in 1946. His artistic talent
was discovered in his childhood in school art contests, in which
he frequently participated. He drew his first caricatures at
fourteen with his teachers as subjects. His artistic career began
at the age of seventeen when he won the Nordic Junior Art
Contest and had his first private exhibition in his home town
Rauma in 1964. His career as a graphic artist took off when
some of his works appeared in the annual exhibitions of the
Finnish Artist Society and the Finnish Graphic Artists Society.
Teuvo Salminen graduated as a teacher in 1969 and immediately
continued his studies at the university specialising as a teacher
of visual arts. Besides teaching he began to design gold and silver
jewellery at first for the Viikinniemi jewellery factory and later
for Kultakeskus. This new area of creativity inspired him and
provided so much work, that he gave up teaching and started
working as a freelancer. His jewellery collections were sold
in Sweden, Norway, Estonia and Germany as well as in Finland.
Drawing caricatures and graphic design remained secondary occupations.
This situation changed in 1998 when Salminen started drawing the
editorial caricatures in Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper
in the Nordic Countries. Due to this work he has gained
a recognized position as one of the best caricature artists
in Finland. For some years now Teuvo Salminen has specialized in
drawing caricatures and it is currently his main occupation but he
also maintains an interest in many other sectors of art. In 2000
he started an advertising agency in addition to his gallery.
A-LOGO specializes in business graphics and graphic design.
In addition to this he also illustrates books, publishes landscape
calendars with his own photographs and paints in oils and watercolours.
Besides the visual arts Teuvo Salminen also loves music.
He started to play the trumpet at the age of nine and has
maintained the interest playing in many orchestras and giving solo
performances over five decades. Teuvo Salminen is especially
fond of jazz. He has been the founder and conductor of several
big bands. He currently plays in the Lahti Big Band and also in two
wind bands in Rauma.