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Juhani Palmu was born in 1944 in Finland and grew up in Sweden. He received his first lessons in drawing and painting from his father, who was a painter and an art dealer who owned a cafe-art gallery in Turku in the late 1970s. Palmu worked as an advertising designer in the 1960s before becoming a painter.

Finnish landscape

Juhani Palmu studied with the Finnish professor Omni Oja, a well-known painter of the Finnish landscape. Palmu's first solo exhibition was in Helsinki in 1976 and a year later his work was exhibited in Stockholm. In 1984 Juhani Palmu came into contact with Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris. It has existed for 200 years and was one of the first galleries to support the early Impressionists. Palmu calls his latest works 'signals of inner peace'.

earlier work

In his earlier work, Palmu always laid a 'surreal tension' between man and nature. Now his work radiates balance and tranquility, using the traditional Finnish buildings in the unmistakable Finnish landscape.

In 1998, Palmu purchased the Strindberg Art Salon in Helsinki, with its furniture and archives, located on Kapteeninkatu. There he presented, among other things, letters by Eero Nelimarkka.