Pertti Matikainen

Self taught/educated artist.
Lives in Helsinki, Finland
Commercial college graduated 1989
Adult high school graduated 1998
Several courses: bookkeeping 1999, 2012, ADP
Artiste FIAP, ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence)
Certificate of excellence in Artavita and Circle - Foundation for the Arts in 2017
Memberships: Helsinki Camera Club, Itä-Helsingin taideseura (East Helsinki Art Club), FIAP, GPU
Written a book in 2017, in Finnish Taidekirja(ko) - "kirja taiteen tekemisen jäljillä olemisesta" (freely in English: Art Book? A Book after Making Art).
Several solo exhibitions in local pubs (Sam's Music Bar and Ratapub) in East Helsinki 2003-2008.
Group exhibition

My art is typically representative or pure abstract and or surreal as well minimal, which is not depending on time or place. I don't normally paint or draw human made things.
"You don't to need know what you do, you need to understand what you are doing."

Autodidact, self taught/educated artist.

Long period solos in local pubs (Sam's Music Bar and Ratapub) in East Helsinki, Finland 2003-2008.
Group exhibition in Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013
A few group exhibitions with East Helsinki Art Club in Helsinki, Finland 2015-2017