Pasi Eerik Karjula is best known for wood sculptures that are technically reminiscent of primitive art and outsider art. Karjula’s favourite tools for carving are knife, axe and chainsaw, and he sometimes treats the surface of his works by scorching. The form of the works is restrained, and Karjula often creates installations or wall reliefs from them. Hinting at figurative content, the works feed the viewer’s imagination. According to Karjula, art needs no verbal explanations, and he doesn’t want to talk about his work.

Pasi Eerik Karjula (b. 1964) lives and works in Pohjaslahti on the shore of Lake Tarjanne in the region of Pirkanmaa. He was born in Jyväskylä, but the family moved to Pirkanmaa before his first birthday. Karjula graduated from the department of sculpture at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. He had his artistic debut the same year at the annual Young Artists’ Exhibition in Kunsthalle Helsinki. Prior to his sculpture studies he had graduated as carpenter from Petäjävesi School of Arts and Crafts in Central Finland. He has work in several Finnish museum collections.