Miisa Mäkeläinen: Lemmenlätäkkö

Miisa Mäkeläinen is a Helsinki-based painter whose motifs seem to hint at something familiar, yet resist any fixed interpretation. Soft shapes flow across the canvas, intertwining nature’s cycles with themes of embodiment. 

Nature comes to life in tree canopies, mycelia, root systems, leaf veins and meandering streams that pulsate, inhale, and exhale within the layers of paint. The picture plane disintegrates, figurative elements become camouflaged in the terrain, and ultimately metamorphose into something new.

For Mäkeläinen, painting is a way of slowing down and being present. Rather than rushing her brush, she allows it to linger, taking time to work out small details within larger compositions. 

She now leaves layers visible that she previously would have painted over, allowing subtle transitions to emerge in the works. 

Meanwhile, her palette has acquired new depth, driven by her fascination with how colours that initially seem mismatched can be brought together to create harmony.

Miisa Mäkeläinen (b. 1992) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2025. She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Finland. 

Her works are held in the Finnish State Art Deposit Collections and other significant collections, incl. that of the Finnish Art Society.

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