Appias Albina

I am Vilnius-based graphic artist, creating highly detailed figurative images in my unique carbon monotype technique, which is based on carbon-copy paper thermal transferring, supplemented with graphite. Using carbon paper, I transfer the smallest details and textures created by both man and nature onto paper, organising them into the well-defined shapes.

I grew up in Vilnius, Lithuania - a historic, green city surrounded by many forests and lakes. After earning Master’s degree in Arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, I worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, jewellery-maker, and audiovisual collaborator, and next to this I was always drawing. This eclectic background gave me a unique point of view through which I approach my art, and continue to inspire my tendency towards exploration and experimentation.

The central subject in my art is nature and animals. I seek to capture the harmony of a moment, the bodily expression and nature of the object she creates. Equally important part is visual texture of the object, what it is made of. I make an unusual choices of patterns, what gives a special sounding and brings dynamic to the strict monumental forms. Thus, combining a deep fascination for scientific illustration with my u...

Masters degree in Art, Vilnius Art Academy, Lithuania.

SOLO exhibitions:

2020 "Appias Albina solo", OBMJ, Tallinn, Estonia

2018 "The Far Shores", Art Cafe, Vilnius, Lithuania

2017 "Birds. Boats.", Ludwig Rhesa cultural center, Juodkrante, Lithuania

2015 "Monochrome stories", "Novotel Vilnius", Lithuania

2012 "Sovius", Supreme Court of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

COMMON exhibitions:

2020 "Nabokov’s Butterflies" series, Vladimir Nabokov’s House-museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

2019 "Spiders" series, for "The Room of Fear" art project, The Union of Artists, St.Petersburg, Russia

2019 "Pianists Hands" series, for "5 Senses" art project, The Union of Artists, St.Petersburg, Russia

2018 "Moths series" for “Glass Cocoon” project: The Union of Artists, St.Petersburg, Russia; Children Literature Centre, Tallinn, Estonia (2019).

2018 "Under the boat" series for European Professional Doll Art Festival, Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia.

2018 "Pack Rules" series for “Running with the wolves” project: The Union of Artists, St.Petersburg, Russia; Children Literature Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia.

2018 "Telling a fairytale", "12+1", "Meno Parkas", Kaunas, Lithuania