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Heikki Mäki-Tuuri:

One of a Kind Paintings

25.1.2025 – 25.5.2025

Heikki Mäki-Tuur’s paintings are characterised by monumentality, ornamentation and colourism. The large-scale paintings feature bright colours and roughly sculpted figures, which convey the power of the earthiness they derive from the nature and environment of South Ostrobothnia.

Mäki-Tuuri often uses events from his own everyday life as his subject matter, the rural way of life, telling stories about local people and their lives. But once he has turned everyday subjects into works of art, they can also develop into fairy tales and fantasy, for example when he talks about UFOs. However, he is not alienated from world events and it is only natural that his paintings reflect recent events, such as the war in Ukraine. Sometimes he depicts religious subjects and they are full of an unusual sincerity, a spiritual light.

Exhibition artist support provided by the National Board of Antiquities.