A photographer and artist based in Helsinki, Finland.
An artisan and aesthete
Kreetta Järvenpää b. 1974 Finland is a Helsinki-based artist who specializes in photographing flowers and plants, creating contemporary floral fantasies inspired by the Dutch golden age. She has an MA degree from the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Järvenpää has been exhibiting her photographs since 2017 and she has been featured in publications such as Schöner Wohnen, Financial Times HTSI, Veranda, Rum Ute, Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Asun magazine and Orlando magazine. Original prints of Järvenpää’s work can be purchased from her website, https://www.kreettakreetta.com/
Best place to find her work is Instagram @kreettakreetta. If you find a photo you love but it is not here in online shop, you can inquiry her floral art photography by email: kreetta.jarvenpaa(at)gmail.com
More information visit portfolio page.
Featured in magazines
Faire magazine 07/22 read her story
Her work in magazines
“Flowers are my materials; they are expressive and shaped by time. Since 2016, I have been making floral arrangements and photographing them to capture every detail into a frame. Everything must be perfect before taking the final shot and I want that my photography doesn’t look like a photograph at all. I create an escape window from reality with my camera – a floral fantasy.
When I was in my twenties, I swore I would never work with plants or gardens. Just too much work. I identified flowers and plants with my mother – they were her. When she died 20 years later, I felt a need to work with flowers and abstract painting. Suddenly the door was open to me and I understood what I had inherited. Flowers were left for me to build my own connection to making art.
I love my freedom to create the world I want; reality and time have no meaning to me. I find my meditative space through the beauty of changing and decaying flowers, and in my works they last forever. I choose my flowers carefully and try to work as ecologically as I can. I paint my own backdrops and I construct arrangements at my workspace where I have an orange tree. This tree was grown by my mother from a single orange seed. She bought the orange from the grocery store in 1965.
Now I’m on a journey with my own language of flowers.
Kreetta