Pirjetta Brander

Visual artist Pirjetta Brander is a multidisciplinary artist whose body of work includes paintings,
drawings, prints, artist’s books, installations and sculptures. Her works
explore the great questions of humanity: the dialogue between light and darkness, the contrast between warmth and
pain, hope and suffering. Brander’s works are gentle and meditative,
and they transport the mind to tranquil mountains where there is no place for the great scourges of modern society
, such as haste, restlessness or greed.

Brander depicts a harsh world with gentleness. Heavy granite softens into smoothness, humbles itself
into roundness and discovers a crumb within. As a counterpoint, light-hearted anecdotes about shells, plants and mushrooms are imprinted onto delicate paper using printmaking
techniques. The bold colours and
, at times, bleak subjects of his early period have evolved as the themes have become more abstract and the imagery
more allegorical. Parasites and decomposers create the fertile ground from which new
trees spring, and every one of Brander’s works is like a tree, lovingly planted and nurtured.

Some of Pirjetta Brander’s works in this exhibition were created in India, where she works
every year at a stone-carving workshop called Creative Sculptures. This exhibition also features
collaborative works by her and the printmaker Janne Laine. Brander’s works are on display
at the Keuruu Museum, the Keuruu Local History Museum, the Keuruu Library and the churchyard of the Old
Church in Keuruu. (Eija Keskinen)

Pirjetta Brander
pirjettabrander@gmail.com
ig@arthousebrander / www.pirjettabrander.com

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