"Openness" Painting

My name is Andzela Smalka, and I am an artist from Latvia with over 20 years of experience, artworks featured in private collections all over the world and 12 solo exhibitions. In my work, I delve into themes of eroticism, spirituality and relationships.

For me, art is meditation, a very spiritual process. I put a piece of my soul into it. I would like to inspire others with my work and create feelings of happiness and harmony. In my opinion, it is most captivating to show this through nature. I find its colors, flowing lines and forms especially intriguing and I hope this is reflected in my work.

While painting, I use a palette knife and oil paint instead of paintbrushes to create textures, as well as backgrounds for my paintings.

My secret
I find it very difficult to comment on or describe my art because most of the time I find myself in a state of trance. I often do not remember mixing colors or painting, almost like an instrument in someone else’s hands. Every painting comes to me like a feeling, all I can do is sit there and observe. While I am working, I often receive certain information about events that reveal themselves later, philosophical questions, or even quantum theory. It is like falling into an infinite void, where everything is light, like another world.