Bio
Heikki Mäki-Tuuri
b.30.7.1947,Tuuri
studied at the Finnish Art Academy School,Helsinki 1968-72.
-paints the distinctly modern depictions of todays rural living with robust lines and strong colours as his means.
My grandmother and grandfather Maria and Matti Mäki-Tuuri were settlers in Marquette,USA during 1905 to1912.At first they lived in the Temperance Movements house.Later they had a house outside the town.My grandfather loaded iron ore to ships and my grandmother had a boortti,a boardinghouse for workers.They moved back to Finland,mainly on relatives requests and bought some land in a village of Tuuri.They built a house according to American plans-large and different from its neighbours.I was born in the upstairs of this house.