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Markku (b. 1957) is a Finnish-American painter. He grew up in a home where the arts were valued. His mother was a singer who played the piano, and his father excelled at drawing and was an amateur painter. Markku studied music in his youth and was an active pianist and organist, before turning to the visual arts.

He paints with acrylics in abstract and surrealist styles, and is known to favor a cool palette. Often he creates pictures in a series, such as his Winter Walk, a group of three views of snow-covered trees, and his The Four Magentas, a quartet of abstract acrylics each featuring the another color paired with magenta.