Underground artist, comix artist.

Several solo exhibitions. Several joint exhibitions (in Finland, Sweden, Hungary). Renowned album cover artist (100+ cover paintings published). Acclaimed cartoonist (newspaper strips, comic books, comix in anthologies in Finland and USA).
Ex musician (Finnish thrash metal pioneers National Napalm Syndicate, original line-up 1986-1991).

Paintings widely published on album covers by underground metal bands worldwide. More than 100 cover paintings for bands such as Autopsy, Whiplash, Black Pestilence, Usurper, Edge of Sanity, Kalmah, In the Woods, Unholy, Denial of God, Sabbat, Morningstar, My Silent Wake etc.
Featured in artbooks MASTERPIECES 2019 (Heavy Music Artwork, UK) , ARTE ARCANA (Heavy Music Artwork, UK) , DARKADYA II (Darkadya, USA) .
Artworks for Ghoultown's Drink with the Living Dead motion art video (more than 23 million views on YouTube) and Mortiis: Secrets of My Kingdom book.

Newspaper comic strip Kaapuveikko is published regularly.

COMMISSIONS:
I'm an underground artist - not a commercial illustrator offering any kind of services or products.
My art is not a business. It is not a hobby either. It is my philosophy, my way of life, my religion, my magick.
Might only be interested in commissions based on themes similar to past works found on this website (underground metal art or private art commissions). You can ask.

INFLUENCES / PREFERENCES:
PAINTING - The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Aesthetic Movement, William Blake, Eetu Isto, Mikael Toppelius, Frank Frazetta, Tamara de Lempicka. Plus the contemporary international Dark Art Legion...
COMIX - Gino D'Antonio, Renato Polese, Ivo Milazzo, Hideshi Hino.

ARTIST STATEMENT: The work stands alone.

LINKS: https://linktr.ee/jvu

CONTACT EMAIL: jvuorma[at]gmail.com