As an environmental artist, Timo Jokela seeks an inner landscape; one which can be experienced through all the senses, often using natural materials, wood, snow, ice, or the local cultural heritage as a starting point for his works. He is particularly interested in the relationship between traditional, physical work within the environment and the aesthetic. He has had many exhibitions and he has realised several environmental art projects and community projects in Finland and abroad as well.

Jokela’s practical art and theoretical academic studies focused on phenomenological relationship between art and nature, environment art, community art and art education. He is also responsible for several international cooperative and regional development projects in the field of environmental art and art education. 

Timo Jokela also works as a professor of Art Education in Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland. Since 1995 he has been as a head of the Department of Art Education. He is working also as a visiting professor of environmental a art and art education. Timo Jokela works also as a professor of Art Education in Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland. Since 1995 he has been the head of the Department of Art Education. He is working also as a visiting professor of environmental art and art education at University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland. Timo lives in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland.