Page 22 - 한국파스텔화협회 국제교류전 및 파스텔화 공모대전 2022. 9. 14 – 9. 19 갤러리라메르

Finland

Plantae Aquatiques_80×70cm

.. ..
Pirkko Makela-Haapalinna (핀란드 남서부 투르쿠에 살며 활동하는 작가)
.. ..
•Pirkko Makela-Haapalinna is a Finnish artist living and working in south-west Finland, Turku. For over a decade she
lived in Lapland. She works mainly with pastels and her art has been acknowledged by the grants of Arts Promotion
Centre Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation. She has had several solo exhibitions in Finland and participated
..
..
in many international exhibitions where her works have also been rewarded. Makela-Haapalinna is a PSA Master
Pastelist, a member of the Finnish Painters' Union and Artists' Associations of Lapland and Turku. Her works move
from landscapes and figures towards abstraction. Her paintings have an ethereal atmosphere. She is searching for the
tangible surface between the inner and the observable worlds. She gets ignited when something gets a metaphorical
..
..
meaning bridging the soul and reason. Pirkko Makela-Haapalinna has worked in the collections of Rovaniemi City and
Jenny and Antti Wihuri collection in Rovaniemi Art Museum.
22