Jolita Linkeviciute

Lithuania based artist, painter and writer.
I am a self-taught artist. Since childhood, as far as I can remember, I have been drawing. It was an opportunity to deep down in to the world of imagination and survive, so that reality would not scare me. I was the youngest in Art school and I developed the fear that I could not draw well like others. Instead the Academy of Arts, I chose university and communication studies, but the hunger for painting was very strong. I decided to fulfill my dream on canvas. To perceive the reality as it is, through the studies of psychology and semiotics. My paintings became figurative, realistic, like the narratives- litteral. An authorial style was formed by studying Rembrandt, Velasquez, Lucien Freud paintings and thinking.
Over the decade, I painted series of portraits of young artists - one of the most interesting project to understand person‘s inner landscape. The idea of realism in this digital era is exclusive and more expansive than people give a credit for. I choose subjects (carefully selected acquaintances) and using drawing (etching), photography session and only then – paint on canvas, examining and exploring these individuals, their identity and psychology. I paint slowly. Painting is ...

Vilnius University, Phd in Communication

Vilniaus Universitetas

Marijampole Art shool

Pranas Gailius (Paris, abstracts)

Art school (Lithuania) 1984-1981. Painting, drawing lessons from famous lithuanian artists: J. Juodzevicius, J. Narusis (sculpture), S. Juskiene (aquarelle), S. Rickeviciute (aquarelle, abstracts)

2024 Moletai city museum gallery, the exhibition of protraits
2024 Birstonas resort Kurhaus gallery, the exhibition of protraits
2024 Pazaislis Monastery gallery, the exhibition of protraits
2023 Vilnius, A. Miczkewicz library's gallery, personal exhibition
2018, Pazaislis Monastery gallery, personal exhibition
2018 Birstonas resort's Kurhaus gallery, personal exhibition "Girls games"
2016 Klaipeda Culture center, Fine art gallery, personal exhibition
2015 LR Parliament gallery, personal exhibition
2014 Pazaislis Monastery gallery, personal exhibition
2014 LR Ministry of Health, personal exhibition
2014 Vilnius University, personal exhibition in the main library of the University
2014 Kaunas castle gallery, hotel Europa (gallery "Langas"), personal exhibition "The Status"
2014 Kaunas different cultures center, personal exhibition "Metaphors"
2013 Birstonas resort library
2012 Kaunas public library, Art departament
2012 Joint exhibition of Kaunas Artists' Union, in Kaunas Philharmonia dedicated to Lithuania Independence day
2010 Kaunas public library