Kristine Gurspone

The Verity of Painting – My Story

I came quite by accident to art school, but there I determined that art would be an integral part of my life. I studied painting at the Art Academy of Latvia and in Florence’s Libera Accademia di Belle Arti.

I like the truth in paintings. They are conversations without words.
My interest in me is unbroken. By using myself as an image, I can be truthful – I can speak of what I have witnessed and felt. But I do believe that a person is not alone – we have someone next to us, someone guiding the painter’s hand. In painting “Angels” I took inspiration from the master Giotto, whose contrasting colors speak beautifully to me. Some things can only be said in black and white.

In my works I will also be expressing upon the fascinating power of nature, with its green variety and deciduous ornaments, from which is drawn every animating breath. I like a great spectacle of form, juxtaposing design with essence, mind with spirit. Design favors the sturdy, dislikes the round, likes symmetry, and does not like asymmetry. But nature, like Giotto, finds a place for the imperfect things.

2012/2013 - Libera Accademia di belle arti (Florence, Italia)
2009-2011 The Latvian Academy of Art, Faculty of Visual Arts, Department of painting,
I Master degree, Riga
2005-2009 The Latvian Academy of Art, Faculty of Visual Arts, Department of painting,
Bachelor degree, Riga
1997-2005 Janis Rozentals Secondary Art School, Riga

Group exhibitions
2019. Source of power, Art gallery MuseumLV, Riga
2019. Continue the flight, Gallery M, t/c “Riga Plaza”, Riga
2019. Nature. Object. Subject, Liepājas Latviešu biedrības nams, Liepaja
2019. Nature. Object. Subject, Jelgava history and art museum of Gedert Elias, Jelgava
2018. 100 in Latvian Art, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils
2017. XXX, Gallery M, t/c “Riga Plaza”, Riga
2014. Art hunting Premium, exhibition / sale, Kalnciema kvartāls, Riga
2013. Still life, Bar AleHouse, Riga
2013. Landscape, Salaspils Exhibition hall, Salaspils
2013. The tall ships races, Gallery Jēkabs, Riga
2013. 13, Gallery Laipa, Valmiera, Latvia
2013. Sosta, Libera Accademia di belle arti, Florence, Italy
2013. Conposto, Florence, Italy
2013. Corrispondere, Empoli, Italy
2012. We have a feeling, Malpils Culture center, Malpils, Latvia
2012. Art hunting, exhibition / sale, Kalnciema kvartāls, Riga
2011. floMASTERI, Salaspils Exhibition Hall, Salaspils, Latvia

2011. Perspective, Media space of RISEBA, Udens street 6, Riga
2011. Kiss, Daugavas museum, Doles, Latvia
2011. Saldi, Shopping centre Domina, Riga ( participant and curator )
2011. Grecian horse, Vidzemes market pavilion, Riga
2011. International mosaic sympo...