ART

Perttu Mäkelä (b. 1979) is a Helsinki-based painter and musician. He is currently completing his BFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Over the past five years, he has created flower meadows at his summer cottage, inviting bees and butterflies. These meadows have become a refuge and a counterbalance to everyday life. Mäkelä works with acrylics, chalk and coloured pencils on both primed and unprimed canvas, building surfaces that breathe much like the meadows that inspire them.

Perttu describes the work done for Post Bar:
“I painted this piece in the summer after returning from Solstice Festival on Ruka fjell, those breathtaking landscapes,
music and the midnight sun deeply inspired me. When the opportunity to create this poster came, the choice was easy.”