Pascal Delphin, Exposition de toutes sortes de sculptures en fer / Exhibiting all kinds of iron sculptures

image (July 2023) as on Google Streetview

The image above shows the exterior of a studio of a non-professional visual artist, located in Vareilles, a commune with a little more than 200 inhabitants (2004) in the dapartment of Saône-et-Loire in France.

Life and works 

The owner of the studio, Pascal Delphin, was born in 1959 or 1960 in Chassigny-sur-Dun, also a small community, about ten kilometers south of Vareilles.

this image and the next five
as on Delphin;s Facebook

Little has been published about his life during the years before he grouped creations into art environments, except that  he felt strongly drawn to making art. 

Initially he focused on drawing, but as he grew older he found this too static an activity. 

He began to develop a greater affinity with making sculptures, and more specifically making sculptures from recycled iron, where he was confronted with volume and movement and where he could rotate around the pieces being progressed.

In 2010, in his early 50s, he settled in Saint-André-d'Apchon, a commune in the Loire department with over 1,900 inhabitants (2022).

He had a house with a garden of approximately 1,500 m², which he gradually filled with iron sculptures, created by himself in his studio.

Drawing on the Japanese concept of gardens, he wanted to create a Zen space, the Ezen Garden, where visitors could wander freely.

He also attracted attention from the regional press, which described him as a highly original sculptor who, using ancient tools, could bring to life assemblages depicting Gallic warriors or metal samurai, unusual tractors, improbable boats and the like.

After living and working in Saint-André-d'Apchon for eight years, Delphin returned to his native region, moving into a vacant building in Verailles that would become his new studio and exhibition space.

As can be seen in the very first image, the building is separated from the road by a green area, where several of his larger sculptures are displayed. Other sculptures, particularly the smaller ones, are also displayed in the spacious interior, which also serves as a studio

Here he continued his creative work, producing all kinds of iron sculptures as he had made in previous years, depicting people, means of transport, flower boxes, but also smaller models of animals.

The image below gives an impression of the studio/exhibition space.

Documentation

* Website of Pascal Delphin

* Article on website La Bourgogne (in English)

* Entry on Instagram, with a variety of photos

* Account on Facebook

Pascal Delphin

Exhibition of iron sculptures

Le Vieux Bourg

80 Route de Saint Christophe

71800 Vareilles, dept Saône-et-Loire, region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Giovanni Masiero, Giardino con sculture in metallo / Garden with metal sculptures

this picture and the next four are screenprints
from the videos in the documentation

Salzano is a community on the mainland of northern Italy, part of the Metropolitan City of  of Venice, located some 24 km from the famous island with the same name.

Life and works

In this community there is an art environment with a variety of creations made by Giovanni Masiero (September 12, 1933 - March 7, 2017), who was a carpenter by profession and made the creations after he retired.

 

So far, there were no reviews on the internet about the size of this art environment and the manner in which it was created. As far as could be determined, local and regional newspapers also paid no attention to his creative work. Only the two videos in the documentation were available for information

Thanks to these two short videos (2014) on YouTube, available in this post, it was possible to get a visual impression of Masiero's creations.

Above, Masiero is pictured standing in his workshop.

However, almost simultaneously with the publication of this post, an article by Giada Carraro about the site appeared in her new website Bric-à-Brac Italia.

The original text about Masiero's site has therefore been adjusted and now appears in a new version.

Giada Carraro visited the art environment in 2015 and was warmly received by Masiero.

At that time the site had almost certainly reached its full size, since Masiero was in his early 80s and would die in March 2017.

Giada's article shows that in addition to the metal creations depicted in this post, numerous other, sometimes smaller characters also have a found a place in the site, such as a woman with a bouquet of flowers, a camel, a turtle and a deer. There is also a (miniature) spaceship. ​

Masiero's daughter, who currently lives in the house, prefers not to receive visitors, which is why the address of the site is not stated

Documentation

* Article by Giada Carraro on her new website Bric-à-Brac Italia

Videos

* Video (3'15", YouTube, 2014) by Artstucdecor 

* Another video (1'04", YouTube, 2014), also by Artstucdecor

Giovanni Masiero

Garden with metal sculptures

Marghera, region Veneto, Italy

preferably no visitors

Jari Sulkala, Taideympäristö kehitteillä / Art environment under development

this image and the next five by Veli Granö

The city of Espoo is Finland's second largest city after Helsinki. It has about 300,000 inhabitants and is known as a center for high technology. 

Near a house in a rural and wooded area in the north of this city an impressive art environment has developed in the past year. That now already can be reported about this, has to do with the infrastructure around outsider art (ITE-art in Finnish), created in Finland thanks to the efforts of Maaseudun Sivistysliitto (the Rural Cultural Association).

 

Life and works

Jari Sulkala, the creator of this site, was born in the mid 1960s. 

Not much is known about his early years, education or studies, except that he got a job in Espoo as a maintenance technician of technical equipment for several companies in Espoo. It was hard and tiring work, the results of which were generally hidden.

Gradually, Sulkala began to feel uneasy that nothing could be discerned from all those years of toil and he began to long for activities where that could be otherwise. And so it happened that in the spring of 2022, in his mid 50s, he quit his job, to continue his activities as a self-taught artist. 

A career switch that was as surprising as it was radical.

Creating an art environment

With his technical experience and skills, he focused on transforming metal objects into artistic creations. For example, the images above show that under the igloo-like garden dome,which he created in the early months of 2023, there is a pedestal with a sculpture of a bird that is made from the parts of a broken motorcycle.

At the top of the dome there is a set of icicles from which water drips, a reference to the melting North Pole due to climate change. The bottom of the dome became a herb garden.

Before Sulkala created this dome, he already made some smaller creations, such as -in the picture above left- a diver made of metal scraps, which can sing through a sound system hidden in the cloak.

The image at the right above shows a creation depicting a bow and arrow weapon, made of a

part of a mixer as found in paint factories.

The image below depicts the first creation Sulkala made. This creation, more or less a first statement regarding the kind of creations he envisioned, is called Leaping Deer and is made from unaltered parts of a broken motorcycle, arranged and welded together in such a way as to emphasize the dynamics of the jump.

The image below shows a dinosaur skeleton. 

The creation is made from the cast iron interior of an old piano. Cast iron is a difficult material to work with, but Sulkula succeeded in extracting legs, ribs and a gaping mouth from the base material in such a way that the dinosaur takes on a lively shape.

The success of this creative operation says something about Sulkala's skill in transforming an iron frame into a work of art.

If it is correct that Sulkala, who quit his job in the spring of 2022, at that moment started making the creations reviewed above, then he has managed to develop an art environment in about a year with a landmark dome and a number of impressive stand-alone sculptures.

That's a great achievement.

If Sulkala continues in this way for a few more years, something could happen that he is already hinting about, which is that the site in the (near?) future will open to the public. 

Espoo then has an art environment to be proud of.

Documentation

* An article posted on the FB-account of ITE Uusimaa on July 7, 2023, written and provided with photos by Veli Granö, was the first (and until now the only) publication about Jari Sukala's project.

- I like to mention that this publication was used in preparing above post

- And then, as far as could be ascertained, the local Espoo press has not yet covered Sulkala's activities

Jari Sulkala

Art environment under development

Espoo, region Uusimaa, province South Finland, Finland

not (yet) open to the public

Bartłomiej Kolbusz, Dekoracje w i wokół "Bury Mis" / Decorations in and around "Bury Mis"

pictures (2017) courtesy of Justyna Orlovska, from her 

website "step off the beaten track"

Bury Mis is the name of a café-restaurant in Bukowina Tatrzanska, a village of some 3000 inhabitants in southern Poland, near the border with Slovakia. Owned by Ewa and Bartłomiej Kolbusz, this site has become known because of the large variety of items that decorate it's exterior and interior.

Life and works

Bartłomiej Kolbusz, who added the various items, included the ones he created himself, was born on January 10, 1977. He got a training as a physiotherapist, but he was much more attracted to work as a visual artist. 

In particular he was interested in making works of art from all kinds of remnants of metal and iron. So in 1999, when he was 22, he founded a sculpture workshop focusing on that artistic genre. The studio was called Mała Manufaktura Radykalna Metalmorfozy Złomu (Small manufacture of radical metal- morphosis of scrap).

His artistic production includes a large variety of creations, mostly made from scrap metal. He made small items such as metal jewelry (rings, brooches), but also larger ones such as chairs and sofas, and creations in which various remnants of metal are combined to, for example, an artwork that can be recognized as an animal on legs, but then without reference to an in reality occurring living creature.

The larger creations he made sometimes have Latin names, such as a bull referred to as Taurus Peculiaris Bioindustrialis or a six-seater bench in a park called Ampulum Situlum.

Also, some large creations have mainly a utilitarian quality, such as a machine to remove 120 capsules from a  series of beer bottles in a few seconds, a device he made for an international meeting of employees of the Dutch beer company Grolsch.

Transforming the café-restaurant into an art environment

In 2002 Kolbusz and his wife took over the café-restaurant that for 25 years was run by Kolbusz' parents under the name Miś. The property was completely redesigned based upon Kolbusz' artistic insights. In December 2002 it was reopened under the name Bury Miś (The addition Bury is a reference to Kolbusz' nickname).

Ewa Kolbusz mainly focused on managing the café-restaurant and Bartlomiej Kolbusz continued his artistic activities.

The photo above shows the workshop that Kolbusz set up as soon as he and his wife became the owners of Bury Miś. 

The various images in this post give an impression of the way in which Kolbusz shaped the decorations of the café-restaurant.

The image of the decorated outer wall, at the very top of this article is followed by a Buddha meditating among the grass, a fairytale character (?) and a character with a cap, a gas mask and horns. 

The pictures around this part of the text show creations that reside in the interior of the cafe-restaurant: top left a creation that somewhat resembles an animal head, next to it a bespectacled male, and below once again an animal head, this one flanked by an old radio and some clocks or measuring instruments.

In the same vein as these creations, the interior of the café-restaurant has metal chairs and strange lamps on the tables that create a very specific atmosphere. A wall is covered with metal tools such as large saws and other carpentry tools.

There are several old radios, a teddy bear sitting in a box mounted on a wall, a dog-like creature with two heads and there is a wooden sculpture depicting an old woman with glass eyes, a pitchfork on the head and behind her a grave cross.

A panoramic, movable series of photos shows the entourage of the interior better than words, which especially goes for the color scheme of the walls and ceilings.

The grounds outside the café-restaurant are dominated by a 14 meter high metal lighthouse, named Iluminaris Marinaris Bukowina,

The tower is topped by a glass structure from which a light is switched on every hour. There is a plan to use the lighthouse as an industrial climbing wall by adding external forms of handholds.

Documentation

* Website of Bartlomiej Kolbusz with a series of photos that give an impression of his artistic production

* Website of the cafe-restaurant Bury Mir, with scenes of the interior

* Website Off the beaten track (April 2017) by Justyna Orlovska with an article and various photos of the site

* Article entitled Bury Miś-the taste of positive madness, with a variety of interesting photos, on          website Kolory Zycia

Videos

* Video  (undated (2013?), 2'16", YouTube) presenting Bartlomiej Kolbusz interviewed by Szalona Zuzia

* Video by Kinior (undated, 5'26", YouTube) with shots of Kolbusz' metal creations 

Bartłomiej Kolbusz

Bury Mis

Duga Street 154,

34-530 Bukowina Tatrzańska, Tatra County, Lesser Poland region, Poland

visitors (of the café-restaurant) welcome

streetview (2017)

Anonymous, Rautaveistoksia Ronttopuisto / Iron sculptures in Rontto park

pictures courtesy of Sophie Lepetit
from her weblog

Driving north towards Paloki on national road 542 in the North Karelia area in Eastern Finland, one will pass Cafe Saurus. 

For those interested in art environments it is advisable to stop there and look around in the sculpture park Ronttopuisto located near the café.

Near the entrance of the café a high-rising dinosaur made from sheet metal welcomes visitors to the park and the café, that takes it's name from that creation. There is a sign by the dinosaur that -freely translated- says that he comes from further away and that in this part of the world there are little roadside eateries.

The name of the person who made the sculptures exhibited in the park, is only known to a small circle. For the general public, the artist wishes to remain anonymous. The maker's skill in shaping and welding iron materials suggests that he is or was a blacksmith.

Apart from some large creations, this art environment mainly includes small-scale sculptures, which often have been made  of metal rings welded together, such rings as are used to make heavy chains.

As the accompanying images show, some of the sculptures are very colorful in appearance. These depict characters that appeal to children, such as Donald Duck, above at the right. A caption accompanying the sculpture reads I'm a poor duck. Give me a lute!

The image above left depicts a blacksmith, about whom the accompanying caption says: With a mallet and piglets in a sack. I am, after all, a big and evil smith. Maybe not so innocent towards children after all?

The images below depict an eagle (at the left) and an old man with a walking stick (at the right).

The image below depicts Pegasus, a winged, divine horse from Greek mythology, usually depicted in white. 

The horse in Ronttopuisto can carry two children and with a mechanism it can make a movement as if it were taking off.

The park has a playground for children and the Café Saurus can arrange cottage accommodation and sauna facilities on request

Documentation

* Article by Minna Tuuva  on the ITE Taide website

* Article (2016) on weblog Kauneudesta lapsiin

Anonymous

Iron sculptures in Rontto park

79830 Heinävesi, North Karelia, Eastern Finland, Finland

can be visited freely

streetview

Tuomo Rantanen, Veistoksia ja muuta rautaa / Sculptures and other creations from iron

pictures courtesy of Sophie Lepetit,
from her weblog

The house pictured above, with some iron sculptures in close proximity, is located in Punkalaidun, a small municipality of around 2800 inhabitants, south-west of the city of Tampere, in Central and Western Finland's lake area. 

The creator of the sculptures, non-professional artist Tuomo Rantanen, lives here with his wife Laila.

Life and works

Tuomo Rantanen, nicknamed "Tumppi", born in 1963, had to quit his job in 1995 because he was afflicted with a rare cervical dystonia, a disease in which the muscles in the neck and shoulder are excessively tense and the head usually turns to one side. It is a disease for which there is no curative treatment and Rantanen is currently still suffering from it.

A man with an open and warm attitude towards all people, Rantanen decided not to give up and,  encouraged by his wife Laila, he focused on making iron sculptures.

Having been doing this for more than 25 years now, Rantanen has meanwhile made a dizzying number of creations, many hundreds of small-scale sculptures, a creative production of which the images in this text give a limited impression. 

By being active in a creative way Rantanen constantly renews himself, both physically and mentally, and as a result of his activity he comes into contact with a variety of people.

In the workshop at his home in Punkalaidum, Rantanen processes all kinds of scrap iron, such as old car parts, pieces of sheet metal and disused iron cans and barrels. To process these materials and transform them into artworks, in terms of equipment little more is needed than hand tools, a welding machine and a vice. Because of his handicap, Rantanen prefers to work seated on his knees.

He creates works of art to amuse people with the elaboration of his ideas in which he is inexhaustible. His creations usually radiate something beautiful, something hilarious or something good-natured, and on top of that they are also weatherproof ..... 

 

Rantanen easily contacts with all kinds of people and organizations.

For example, it has been mentioned that he is happy to coach a group of children when they meet at the local library to make Christmas decorations.

He also has contacts with regard to participating in exhibitions, especially in Pirkanmaa, the area where he lives. In recent years, for example, his work has been shown at an exhibition in Porttikallio, a municipality neighboring his hometown Punkulaidum. 

In 2018 his creations were exposed in the Finnish Workers' Museum Werstas in Tampere, about 65 km north-west of Punkulaidum as the crow flies.

At a summer 2017 exhibition in Aaka, about 50 km east of Rantanen's hometown, it happened that a sculpture called Sammak (pictured above right) was molested. He was able to repair the damage, as he tells and shows in the first video in the documentation below.

Documentation

* Article (2018) on website Aarteet ja Löydot

* Weblog of Sophie Lepetit with pictures and informative texts  

* An interview (June 2018) of Hanna-Mari Kamppikoski with Rantanen on the Facebook account of the municipality of Punkalaidum

Videos

* Video about the Sammak sculpture by Maaseudun Sivistysliitto (January 2018, YouTube, 2'43")

* Another video by Maaseudun Sivistysliitto (2017, YouTube, 4'13") showing Rantanen at work in his workshop

Tuomo Rantanen

Sculpture garden

Punkalaidun,  Pirkanmaa, Central and Western Finland

visitors welcome on appointment

Darius Dulinskas, Muziejus Metalo Fantazija / Museum of Metal Fantasy

sculptures at the camping site
picture by Darius Dulinskas from website 15min.lt

Located along the edge of Lake Viŝtytis in the south-west of Lithuania, the camping site Pušelė, near the village of Žirgėnai (municipality of Vilkaviškis) is characterized by an extensive collection of metal sculptures made by the non-professional artist Darius Renaldas Dulinskas The collection is known as Muziejus Metalo Fantazija (Museum of Metal Fantasy)

Life and works

Born in the early 1970s, Dulinskas after primary and secondary school, did a study of agronomy, a field in which he would not be active however.

In his early years there were no indications that he was interested in artistic activities. He was more of a motorcycle enthusiast. 

Being engaged as a non-professional artist did not come until Dulinskas was in his late thirties, and that, incidentally, to his own surprise.

a number of small sculptures at the camping site
picture from website Vilkaviskisinfo

Around 2008 Dulinskas was unemployed and when a friend of his, a member of the same motorcycle club, celebrated his birthday, he decided to make a present himself, just to save some money. The self made present became a small model motorcycle he welded together from iron scrap that he had lying around.

At first, Dulinskas was a bit worried that his homemade gift might not be appreciated, but the opposite was the case, as both his friend and the guests at the birthday party turned out to be enthusiastic about his self-created present. 

Soon after, he was asked to make another small model of motorcycle, which he did. And so Dulinskas started a new career as a non-professional artist, engaged in making iron creations.

a life-size sculpture of horse 
picture from website Vilkaviskisinfo

Metal scrap became the basic material Dulinskas used to make his creations. As he said "To me a pile of scrap is a pile of gold". 

Initially Dulinskas mainly made small creations of motorcycles, but gradually he also focused on other topics, such as birds and other animals, plants, vehicles, musical instruments ..... 

The small-scale motorcycles made by Dulinskas became a favorite birthday present in circles of motorcyclists and others, so he began to consider giving his creative hobby a more businesslike character by selling his small-scale creations or by working occasionally to order. In general, however, he retained the status of a non-professional artist.

Dulinskas also gained fame as a creator of iron sculptures in other ways. 

For example in the course of 2011 he was involved in a project to equip his hometown Vilkaviškis with a statue. He made a sculpture of a wolf, an animal that played a role in the city's history. Residents, but especially groups of young people, helped to gather iron material to assemble the sculpture, which in October 2011 got a place in the town.

Also due to the donation of materials by inhabitants, the garage of Dulinskas, which he used as a studio, became richly filled with materials to make more sculptures.

a sculpture of a large bird 
 picture from website Vilkaviskisinfo

The Museum of Metal Fantasy

In the few years he meanwhile was engaged in making iron sculptures, Dulinskas had gained a certain fame as an artist and thus he became involved in the initiative of establishing a museum of metal fantasy on the grounds of the camping site Pušelė located in the municipality of Vilkaviškis. 

This, incidentally, together with the forest ranger and fellow self-taught artist living near Vilkaviškis Povilas Penkaitis, who made some eighty sculptures of oak wood for the museum, mostly produced with the circular saw.

On the camping site a considerable amount of space was available, and is plausible that Dulinskas now felt challenged to create also life-size sculptures.

two cranes at the edge of the lake near the camping site
picture from website Vilkaviskisinfo

The pictures in this post mainly depict some of these life-size  sculptures, and they clearly show how Dulinskas time and again succeeded in handling iron materials in such a way that the individual, specific character of the depicted animal was expressed.

The collection of sculptures Dulinskas contributed to the Museum also includes a large number of smaller creations, both a variety of items loosely scattered around the site and items arranged in groups on wooden scaffolds.

All together. the Museum's collection now (2021) has reached a size of more than 800 iron sculptures. 

an animal with a hairdo of (bicycle) chains

picture from website Glotels

Monumental stand-alone creations

Besides the sculptures collected on the camping site, Dulinskas also has created a number of stand alone sculptures, sometimes with a monumental character in terms of theme or size.

A recent example of this is the monument in memory of the motorcyclists of the Baltic States who died in traffic, which was unveiled on Saturday, May 13, 2017 near the community of Vievis next to the highway from Kaunas to Vilvius. A video in the documentation below shows the unveiling of the creation.

Another example is a motorcycle sculpture, placed in the village of Girėnai, in the Šakiai district, in May 2015 which is considered the largest motorcycle sculpture in Lithuania. The sculpture weighs 1,621 kg, is 4.3 m long and 2.4 m high. 

Considering that Dulinskas only started making metal sculptures around 2010, initially many small-scale creations, but later also numerous life-size and sometimes monumental works, it can be concluded that he has proved to be an extremely prolific artist. In addition, his creations are often made at the request or with the cooperation of interested people, which undoubtedly entails great accessibility and appreciation of his artwork.

Documentation

* Website of the campsite with a short description of the Museum of Metal Fantasy, a small series of photos

* Touristic website Panatyk Lietuvoje Lt  (See in Lithuania Lt)  with a short referral to the museum and a series of over 20 photos

* Article on website 15min.lt with a series of pictures, including pictures of Dulinskas in his studio

* Article (2014) on website Iritas

Videos

* Video (December 2014, 1.31") with New Year's greetings for 2015 shows Dulinskas at work in his studio

* Video (2017, 1'35", YouTube) by Vidmantas Misevičius entitled Paminklo atidengimas (Unveiling of the monument {in memory of the deceased bikers of the Baltic States})

  

Darius Dulinskas

Museum of Metal Fantasy

Camping site Pušelė

70345 Žirgėnai (municipality of Vilkaviškis), Lithuania

free visits for people staying at the camping, small fee for other visitors

Risto Salmi, Puutarha, jossa on muuraus rakenteita ja veistoksia jäännösraudasta / Garden with masonry structures and sculptures of residual iron

pictures courtesy of Risto Salmi, 
from his website and Facebook-account

Savonlinna is a municipality with around 33000 inhabitants in South Savonia, Finland, an area known for its many lakes. 

From the point of view of art environments, the area also deserves to be known for the specific creations made by Risto Salmi, both masonry structures and a large variety of iron sculptures mainly made of scrap metal from brick kilns that needed to be renovated.

Olavi, the housekeeper

Life and works

Born in 1956, Risto Salmi after his primary education probably had a vocational training before starting to work as a bricklayer at the age of 20.

He has now worked in this profession for more than 40 years. In 2007 Salmi founded his own company called Uunisuutari Risto Salmi. His son Antin is also employed there.

As a bricklayer, Salmi gradually focused his attention on making brick kilns. In this occupation it also happened that he was asked to dismantle old ovens before building a new one.

That old material, such as shutters and rings, was usually not reused and Salmi got the idea to use these leftovers to make creations as usual in Finnish ITE art.

One of the first creations he made was the structure shown above, a kind of tower with a huge copper tile roof and four sides with a total of 75 old oven doors.

This structure was a gift to Salmi's wife on the anniversary of their wedding. It became an iconic element in the garden at their house.

Another large structure, made by Salmi in 2016,  is the pizza oven pictured above. 

It is a replica of one of the towers of Olavinlinna. a 15th-century castle, built on an island in the Kyrönsalmi strait that connects the lakes Haukivesi and Pihlajavesi. The castle is known for the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which has been held since 1912.

The round holes at the top of the tower are loopholes in the original one, and that's where the replica blows out the smoke from the internal barbecue. 

There are also sculptures made mainly of materials other than iron, such as the ensemble depicted above with two musicians and a spectator.

The musician with the guitar is Irwin Goodman (14-9-1943/14-1-1991), a popular folksinger who toured Finland for 25 years and with whom Salmi was friends. The drummer is Remu Aaltonen. And the spectator made from white concrete, wearing a black metal cap, is Finnish comedian actor Masa Niemi.

Salmi has also made creations out of wood, as the photo above shows. It is a horse made of a large number of loose wooden elements, which pulls a sled with a number of tree trunks on top. 

The construction of the horse is so sturdy that Salmi can sit on it as a rider.

In the background the picture shows kind of garden shed, also made of wooden components

a sportsman wearing a four wind cap

But the majority of Salmi's sculptures mainly have been made of metal parts from old stone ovens. 

Like the above depiction of a sportsman, probably the in Finland well known Korte-Heikki, wearing a specific Lappish cap, referred to in Finland as four wind cap.

From an early age Salmi loved to write poems and poetic texts. Examples of this can be found on his website. The way in which he uses the iron elements that form the basis of his creations, also bears witness to a great creative capacity.

The four photos (click to enlarge) grouped around also show this quality, with top left an African grandmother with a lantern in hand going to meet the grandchildren, top right a character guarding the entrance of the site, down left a bear with a pot of honey and down right a character dressed in a work apron

And then, to conclude this article, the photo below of a car that will remind many older readers of the years when they for the first time could afford a car and bought something like a second-hand Citroën 2CV ......

Documentation

* Salmi's Facebook page

* Website Uunisuutari of Salmi's company, with a page with a series of photos of the creations and another one with his poetry.

* Article (July 2018) on the website of Maasedun Sivistysliitto (MSL, Association of Rural Education) by Minna Tuuva and Kimmo Heikkillä

Videos

* Video (August 2018) from Salmi's Facebook account

* Video (July 2020, 4'50", YouTube)  

 

Risto Salmi

Garden with built structures and a variety of sculptures of residual iron

24 Apajatie

57600 Savonlinna, South Savonia, Eastern Finland, Finland

no visits during COVID pandemic

the site could usually be visited some weekends in summer, 

see phone number on website Ounituutari