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| Images on this website by Veli Grano,published here with permission from the Association for Rural Culture and Education, MSL |
The image above shows a half-hectare area in a forest, designed as an art environment with concrete sculptures, a site located far from the main roads in southwestern Finland.
Documentation
Life and works
This area was designed by Teuvo Jalonen (born in1961) together with his wife Marjana Perttula. a couple living in the city of Pori with some 83.000 inhabitants, located some 10 km away from the Gulf of Bothnia. The photos in this post give an idea of the site and the sculptures of all kinds of animals located there.
Jalonen has a job at a paper mill in Pori. He's not retired yet; that will be in 2026 when he turns 65, the standard retirement age in Finland.
His partner suspected that Teuvo had an artistic bent and she bought some modeling clay.This turned out to be a real hit. 
Jalonen shaped the clay into a mammoth, and then filled the couple's home with numerous other small clay sculptures.
He preferred creating all kinds of animals, exotic and rare ones, but especially cats, which are interesting to sculpt because of the plasticity of their bodies.
In 2012, two important developments occurred in Teuvo Jalonen's development as a non-professional artist. He began creating large sculptures, and the couple acquired a space in a forest to situate these creations within an art environment.
He created the lifelike, large sculptures from cast concrete. Just as with his smaller creations, he showed a preference for animals in his choice of subjects.
The image above shows a tiger in a design that demonstrates great realism, which also applies to the animals depicted in the photos below.
As said, the second development in 2012 was the couple's acquisition of a piece of land in a forest.
Teuvo's parents had bought a half-hectare plot in mid-1979, which Teuvo and Marjaana were able to re-purchase from their inheritance.
The forest, called Metsäpuisto, is located along a back road near the municipality of Eurajoki, about 40 km south of Pori.
The focal point of the art environment in the forest is the Siberian tiger. There are now also deer and a lynx, and Teuvo intended to add other animals, such as a raccoon, a badger, and a brown bear.....
* Article (undated) on the website of the Finnish Association for Rural Culture and Education
* Article (undated) on a regional website of above Association
* Article (May 2023) on Finnish newspaper SV24
Teuvo Jalonen
Sculptures in the forest
Raskintie 170,
27150 Eurajoki, dept Satakunta, region Western Finland, Finland
visitors welcome
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