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.

Accolades

  • Miniature Painting Open 2023 (online): 1x Gold, 1x Silver & 3x Bronze in Masters categories.

  • Monte San Savino Show 2023 (IT): Bronze in Masters Fantasy Figure Painting.

  • Scale Model Challenge 2023 (NL): 2x Silver and 1x Bronze in Masters categories.

  • Kontrast Festival 2023 (PL): 1x Gold, 2x Silver, 4x Bronze in the Masters categories and one silver in a Gaming category + multiple special industry awards including Best Miniature chosen by Guest of Honour Patrick J. Jones and Gold SMC award.

  • Golden Demon UK 2023 (UK): 2x Commended Entry

  • World Model Expo 2022 (NL): 1x Silver and 2x Bronze in Masters categories.

  • Resin Beast Online 2020, 2021 & 2022: Category winner all three years that the competition was organized.

  • Multiple medals and Best in Show -awards in many of the biggest painting competitions and scale model shows in Finland.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Welcome to Cold North Open 2024! As many of you might know, we've been organizing the yearly @ropecon.fi miniature painting competition with @paintingbaron, @vuentominis and @hoshodeminis for the last two years here in Finland. It's a long-running c
Here are all of my MPO results for 2023. Could not be happier. In the 2021 edition I didn't manage to place in Standard, so placing with five entries in Masters and with a gold for my unit as a cherry on top this time felt like a real culmination of
#artvsartist2023 seems to be going on right now, so here's mine! Overall quite a mixed bag of a year but amidst everything else miniature painting and particularly the people involved have remained a great source of joy throughout. Some highlights f
If cancer is a sensitive topic for you, I suggest skipping/not reading further. Unraveling Cancer, part I/x: Diagnosis / Pain My father was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer over a year ago and passed away a bit over a week ago at 66, after a l
Small angry spaceman face. Been seeing quite a lot of these here recently, maybe due to the totally-not-a-challenge #marineheadchallenge by @darrenlatham inspired by the work of @darrenhan5 . While it's not the specific head and is painted in a bit d
Just heard I was awarded Bronze in Masters Fantasy Painting in Monte San Savino Show '23 with 'A Cross to Bear'! 🤯🥳 Unfortunately I was unable to attend in person this year, but incredibly thankful for my friends who brought my piece there despite
Did this piece titled 'A Cross to Bear' a while ago already, but didn't have a chance to post it here yet. Sculpt by @kuton.sculpts , printed by my friend @kingviscerum in 1/24, actually quite significantly smaller than most commercial 1/24 figures.