Storm Painting

Experimentation is the inspiration for artist, Vineta Rutkovskis. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she grew up with an intense passion for creativity and has constantly searched for ways to express it. She has flourished in the culinary arts both professionally and at home, (her two beautiful little girls are treated to some quite elaborate birthday cakes), she studied art at UC Davis but found the traditional school system to be too restrictive, so is primarily self taught. She loves to repurpose objects and find new uses for things that would normally be thrown away. Drawing and painting were revisited after her children were born and inspired her to express herself through color, lines, shapes. Repetition, patterns, how things integrate together are what she draws from creatively—call it a need to keep order in the chaos of life. Her artwork must have cohesion in how one line distinctively intersects with many others, to how one paint color flawlessly blends into the next. She allows one approach—be it color, a pen stroke, a shape—to influence what will complement the piece next, while limiting herself typically to three to four techniques per piece, sometimes only one. Her plan is that there is no plan, only the idea that simplicity when repeated blossoms into intrigue.