Arvid Liljelund

Arvid Liljelund spent his days in Helsinki sketching the city’s quieter corners, where shopkeepers and schoolteachers sat for portraits between errands. He once stood for an hour in a draughty market square to capture a woman’s shawl, just to get the folds right. Try finding his *Opintoja luonnossa*—a painting where three kids squint at a moth on a sunlit wall—and you’ll see why he’s here: he turned small moments into something solid enough to hang on your wall.