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ABOUT
My Inspiration
PROCESS
I was born and raised in Lithuania, in a family of an opera singer and a film maker, and started painting and showing art at the age of 30. As a little girl traveling with my Mom around the country, I admired the work of traditional and mostly unschooled wood carvers. I was fascinated by the books on Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymous Bosch, Odi
I was born and raised in Lithuania, in a family of an opera singer and a film maker, and started painting and showing art at the age of 30. As a little girl traveling with my Mom around the country, I admired the work of traditional and mostly unschooled wood carvers. I was fascinated by the books on Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymous Bosch, Odilon Redon, poetry and visual art by Leonardas Gutauskas, Čiurlionis, as well as film scenes and stage sets - my parents' work environment. Growing up in what seemed to be a black and white Soviet world, hiding amongst hot projectors soaking in the explosion of color on the stage was surreal and fascinating.
PROCESS
My Inspiration
PROCESS
I was introduced to intuitive painting while studying art at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. My teachers were Robert Spellman, Joan Anderson and later, Nick Bantock, a renowned collage artist and author. My surface is wood and canvas. I start a piece without a specific idea in mind, by drawing lines and shapes followed by pools of
I was introduced to intuitive painting while studying art at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. My teachers were Robert Spellman, Joan Anderson and later, Nick Bantock, a renowned collage artist and author. My surface is wood and canvas. I start a piece without a specific idea in mind, by drawing lines and shapes followed by pools of diluted acrylic or oil color. Fragments of a story are revealed by lifting paint, adding and erasing pencil marks and sanding. When it works, it feels like I am carving imaginary shapes in wood and fog.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
Many of my mixed media and oil paintings are inspired by my childhood experiences in the country outside the city where I baked clay pancakes using muddy peat from the nearby pond, helped churn butter, sharpened knives with a leather belt and spun the honey wheel. I often sat under an ancient oak tree listening to the stork above and made
Many of my mixed media and oil paintings are inspired by my childhood experiences in the country outside the city where I baked clay pancakes using muddy peat from the nearby pond, helped churn butter, sharpened knives with a leather belt and spun the honey wheel. I often sat under an ancient oak tree listening to the stork above and made pens out of the stork's feathers. I always liked to make clothes from unusual materials and create something out of nothing. I once made a winter coat out of a parachute and repurposed old sneakers as Greek style sandals.