Studio Visit with Pirkko Mäkelä-Haapalinna PSA-MP

Pirkko Mäkelä-Haapalinna PSA-MP

“I AM ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR THE TANGIBLE SURFACE BETWEEN THE INNER WORLD AND THE OBSERVABLE ONE.”

Pirkko Mäkelä-Haapalinna is a Finnish artist living and working in southwest 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. Mäkelä-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 Mäkelä-Haapalinna has works in the collections of Rovaniemi City and Jenny and Antti Wihuri collection in Rovaniemi Art Museum. Pirkko Mäkelä-Haapalinna is featured in Pastelagram, Summer 2016, Volume 43, pp. 10-13.
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