Heikki Marila

Heikki Marila. Photo: Bengt Oberger

Heikki Marila (b. May 16, 1966 in Lahti) is a Finnish painter. His expressive paintings engage with a variety of themes. Marila paints series of large canvases and works with themes from religious subjects by 16th century painters such as Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald. He has created dynamic self-portraits and maps, mainly of small industrial towns in Finland such as Mänttä and Riihimäki. In recent years, Marila has painted monumental flowers paintings inspired by the 17th century Dutch floral still lifes, and 19th century Romanticism of Henri Fantin-Latour. The role of material and painting gestures becomes more prominent when figurativeness and non-figurativeness are engaged in the large-scale canvases.

In 2011 Marilala was awarded with Carnegie Art Award,^[1] worth one million Swedish krona. Marila is the second Finnish artist to win the biannual award for Scandinavian artists.

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