Alpo Sakari Jaakola (1 April 1929 – 27 February 1997) was a Finnish painter and sculptor, known as the Shaman of Loimaa.

[2] Alpo Jaakola matured as an artist in the surrealism-tinged atmosphere of Turku School of Fine Arts.

Jaakola's interest in different eras and genres of art became evident early on and he developed into a genuine "total artist" – simultaneously a "mystical splinter light painter" and an "anarchistic junk metal-concrete dadaist".

[citation needed] In 1992, the Alpo Jaakola Statuary Park was opened to the public in Loimaa, Finland.

The Statuary Park is the result of many decades of creative work and a monument of Alpo Jaakola's artistic power.