Contemporary artist based in Helsinki, Finland.

Kreetta Järvenpää b. 1974 Finland is a Helsinki-based artist who specializes in photographing flowers, plants and mushrooms creating contemporary floral fantasies inspired by the 17th century art. She designs flowers and photograph them in natural light.

Järvenpää has an MA degree from the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Järvenpää has been exhibiting her photographs since 2017.

Järvenpää has been featured in publications such as Schöner Wohnen, Financial Times HTSI, Veranda, Rum Ute, Taide, Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Asun magazine, Faire magazine, Piece With Artist, and Orlando magazine.

Järvenpää’s first museum exhibition was Flora Favola with Heikki Marila in Poikilo Museum. Järvenpää’s artworks can be found in museum collections, gallery collections and private collections worldwide.

Järvenpää has multible collaborations with brands like Essenza Home, Putinki Helsinki, K-Rauta, PURE WASTE, Kuopio City Theatre, MOKK Sweden, Double Dutch Cash.

Clients

Financial Times, Veranda, Posti, Gardens Illustrated, Artek, RUM UTE magazine, S-ryhmä, Oatly, Iittala, Desico, Viherpiha, K-Rauta, Uronen Garden, Lakrids by Bülow, Kauppapuutarhaliitto, Honkarakenne, Kaiko Clothing, Kämp Garden, Asun Magazine, Mustila Puutarha, Stockmann, WSOY, Otava, The Green Gallery, Moskito Television, Sony, Weiste, Marimekko, Johanna Gullichsen,  A-lehdet, Osuuspankki

ARTIST STATEMENT

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 I understood what I had inherited. Flowers became my artistic language.

I find my meditative space through the beauty of changing and decaying flowers, and in my works they become immortal. I choose my flowers carefully and try to work as ecologically as I can. I paint my own backdrops and I construct arrangements. I photograph my flowers with natural light. I work 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.

I’m on a journey with my own language of flowers.