Petri Yrjölä
Basic information
b. 1972, Oulunsalo
Painter
Residence: Ii As.
Contact information
Phone number: +358 40 5656 826
Email: art339@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
Forest, the sea or water in some other form can be found in the paintings of Petri Yrjölä. In the individual motifs, the viewer can become interested for instance in bumblebees and trees, which can be regarded as his alter ego, or more generally as an allegory of man.
“Large paintings are windows onto another world that is familiar yet strange, perhaps fascinating, frightening, loveable, understandable… I don’t want to show everything, but to leave, instead, an element of mystery for viewers, who can see a work in terms of their own history, each in their own way.” His paintings involve dialogues of differences and the opposite ends of scales: light and shadow, surface and depth, figurative and non-figurative, the familiar and the strange.
“Large paintings are windows onto another world that is familiar yet strange, perhaps fascinating, frightening, loveable, understandable… I don’t want to show everything, but to leave, instead, an element of mystery for viewers, who can see a work in terms of their own history, each in their own way.” His paintings involve dialogues of differences and the opposite ends of scales: light and shadow, surface and depth, figurative and non-figurative, the familiar and the strange.