SUMMER TALKS II Painting

I am a painter passionate about the subtle expressiveness and translucent deepness of watercolors. As a person with architectural background I am fascinated by the structure, dimension and the lightning of an objects I am surrounded with. I am looking for extraordinary in the ordinary by emphasizing movement, tone values, natural paint flow and brush strokes itself. For me painting is a form of meditation and a way to keep myself balanced. I have chosen watercolor as my main medium because it is full of oppositions and it helps me to show the contrasts of existence: powerful inner drama, will to resist, to change together with a fragile hidden balance what is hard to find in a complex world. I am highly influenced by Sumi-e, Japanese painting with ink technique, and its philosophy. I love simplicity and the strength of black and white strokes. I am looking at this kind of visual expression like it is a silent vocabulary that hopefully could speak through a limit of words. Watercolor doesn’t let a mistake to be made and it seems to have a mind of its own. As an artist I try to collaborate with that wild element of the watercolors and it teaches me to found comfort in the unknown. Watercolor is my best colleague whom I make a continues dialogue with. Born and raised in a small Lithuanian town called Prienai, currently I am living and creating in Vilnius, the capital city. I started to attend art school at 5 (one year before I started primary school) and later got my high education as an architect in Vilnius Academy of Arts.