Artist

Heikki Seppä

born Viipuri, Finland 1927-died Bainbridge Island, WA 2010
Also known as
  • Heikki Seppa
  • Heikki Markus Seppä
Born
Viipuri, Finland
Died
Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
Active in
  • St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Biography

Heikki Seppä studied metalworking techniques in Helsinki and Denmark before he and his wife, Ulla, immigrated to British Columbia in 1951. The couple relocated again in 1965 to St. Louis, where the artist taught metalsmithing and design at Washington University. Seppä was noted for developing the reticulation technique, a method that dominated his work into the 1970s.