Night City Painting

Zaneta is an award winning fine art painter and photographer, published in various magazines, highly passionate about dramatic landscapes and the magic of the light. Playing with light and shadow to tell emotionally captivating nature and city stories is her signature. Her paintings take beholders on a journey to mystic world, portraying the beauty of nature in her purest form. The use of palette knife and oil on canvas produces more energetic perspective and vibrancy expression while allowing contrasts ranging from detailed to diffused representations, where light dynamics provide life to art. Inspiration comes from contrasts and light intensity between shadows and clarity based in reality. The living beauty of nature, the uniqueness and charm of the city are the most attractive and exciting. For her creating a painting is fascination, passion and joy, an expression of a dialogue between external events and internal perception. Personality, emotion and energy subconsciously dictate the creation of each facet of the painting, allowing any piece of art to speak for itself and also communicate with people, letting the viewer to find his own reality within such work. She likes to allow an element of chance and experimentation with the creation of each piece, and, by doing so, she leaves the door open for something magical to happen. “The connection between art and myself remains and will always be the splendor of life, while my aim is dancing between the chairs, not sitting on them.” The artist´s work is part of private art collections in USA, Taiwan, Germany, Portugal and Lithuania. Born in Lithuania in the 70's, her artistic journey began early in her childhood. Always carrying a pencil and a few paper sheets in order to represent her surroundings in drawings. Later in life, while attending the Vilnius University to study Germanic languages and translation, she started painting and in just a few years developed as a landscape artist. Moreover, due to her professional duties becoming more demanding, there wasn't enough time left to keep painting. However, in 2010 her life suffered a complete transformation which made her move to Portugal. Since then, she was able to dedicate a considerable amount of time to painting and from 2016 began her artistic training at the Fine Arts International Atelier (AIBA) to further develop artistic knowledge and painting precision. "It has been a privilege to keep up with Zaneta's painting development.