Photograph courtesy of Helsingin Sanomat.

Hello,

And thank you for visiting my site! I’m Erkka, an internationally awarded miniature artist and a pedagogically trained teacher from Finland.

As an artist I pride myself in my versatility, as I enjoy working with a variety of scales and subjects, ranging from small 32 mm heroic scale figures to larger 1:8 busts and the like, all the way from fantasy to historicals.

Like many of us, I like stories. Telling them through my works is what best gets me invested in a project. A lot of the inspiration behind my work comes from humanity, emotions, nature, fairy tales, mythology and popular culture, and these themes tend to often be present in a lot of my pieces.

Competitions

  • Multiple Golden Demon winner

  • Various awards from the most respected competitions in the world, such as Gold from Monte San Savino 2025 Masters Fantasy Painting, Gold from World Model Expo 2025 Masters Wargaming Scale.

  • Judged large and small competitions both locally and internationally.

Exhibitions

Upcoming:

4.-28.2.2026 Perlina, La Fiaba -gallery, Jyväskylä, Finland (group exhibition)

1.-30.4.2026 Näinkin sen voi kertoa, Pohjois-Haagan kirjasto, Helsinki, Finland (group exhibition)

Past:

16.9.-9.11.2025 Kämmenenkokoisia kertomuksia / Palm-sized tales, National Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland (solo exhibition)

Teaching

I’m a trained teacher with a Masters degree in Education and years of teaching experience. Bringing this pedagogical knowledge into the miniatures world comes to me naturally when for example giving feedback and teaching workshops. Feel free to be in touch about organizing a workshop near you.

Upcoming workshops:

28.2.-1.3.2026 Diorama basing & Composition, Espoo, Finland. Link for registration here.

13.-14.6.2026: Diorama basing & Composition, Zürich, Switzerland. Link for registration here.

Other stuff

  • Commissions & collaborations: I’m experienced in doing commission work, having done both box art for companies and work for private collectors. I’m only taking a very limited amount of commission work currently, for more details check the “Contact” -page.

  • Cold North Open, Ropecon Miniature Painting Competition: I’ve been a part of the team behind organizing and judging Finland’s biggest figure-focused painting competition since 2022.

  • Cold Tones Society: Founding member of Cold Tones Society, a community for display painters in Finland with the purpose of developing the local painting scene through community efforts and events.

Excited to let you know that my miniature art exhibition titled "Kämmenenkokoisia kertomuksia" will open in the National Craft Museum of Finland @suomenkasityonmuseo next week on 16.9., and it'll be in the Näytönpaikka window
Reuploading this as IG butchered the colours and shadowbanned my account for nudity on my first post. Hopefully this censored version will be fine. 🤡 Anyway, this piece is called Please and I did it earlier this summer. Thank you @thorbjorn_barone
@ropecon.fi and our Cold North Open painting competition that we organize with the rest of the @coldtonessociety crew is now over, and what a weekend it was. It was my fourth time judging and organizing, and the competition just keeps getting better
Perhaps my favourite close-up of the piece I did for World Model Expo. @thorbjorn_barone titled the piece "The Last Stand", but in my mind I actually named the version I painted as "Please". Many people asked me if I'm going to pa
I had the pleasure to paint this beautiful sculpt called 'The Last Stand' by @thorbjorn_barone for World Model Expo 2025 in Versailles. We received a silver medal for it in the masters fantasy open category, which I am very happy about. While I have
Happy to show to you the box art for Wei Lan that I painted for @mortalminiatures earlier this year. Mortal Models is a small new miniatures company ran by some great dudes here in Finland. They have a bunch of really cool stuff coming up, so I hig
'Midsummer Girl' or 'Juhannustyttö', my piece from #dogma48finland that was held all the way back in February. Thought it appropriate to post now as we're celebrating midsummer or juhannus as we call it here in Finland today and tomorrow. This i
Received this brand new Jericho figure and a restock of the new Mindwork heavy body acrylics from @mindwork.studio earlier this month - thank you! Jericho is a part of the Slug Lords warband for Mindwork Games' new game Paradise @paradise_wastepunk_
With the pre-order release of the new Space Wolves range today I thought it appropriate to do a little throwback to some of the Sons of Russ that I've painted over the last years, including a few personal favourites from my army painting days before