09 Painting

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.