Renata Kopac

My practice is rooted in vibrant, expressive painting and explores the shifting boundary between abstraction and figuration. Working primarily in oil, I build each composition through layers of colour, gesture, texture, and form. This process creates depth, movement, and emotional intensity, allowing the painting to develop as both a physical and psychological space.
Painting is central to my existence. It is not only a visual language, but a way of thinking, feeling, and understanding the world. Through paint, I explore memory, emotion, identity, sensuality, and the relationship between inner experience and external reality.
Colour is the driving force in my work. It carries mood, energy, tension, and meaning. I use colour instinctively and deliberately, allowing it to shape the structure of the painting while also creating atmosphere and emotional resonance. Layers of colour overlap, dissolve, clash, and reconnect, forming surfaces that suggest movement, transformation, and hidden narratives.
I am strongly drawn to the physicality of paint. The texture of the brushstroke, the movement of the hand, and the direct relationship between body, material, and canvas are essential to my process. My paintings develop through spontaneous y...

Education

2008 MA Communication Museums and Galleries Management University of Vilnius LT

2007 MA Fine Art in Education Institute of Art and Culture Vilnius LT

2006-2008 Raimondas Savickas Art School LT

2005 BA Fine Art Painting Vilnius Pedagogical University LT

1997-2001 Justino Vienozinskio School of Fine Art Vilnius LT

2025 July London Art Biennale

2024 November Thomson Gallery Group exhibition Zug Switzerland

2024 October Art Expo Paris

2022 June BOOMER Gallery Contemporary Paintings Third Edition London

2022 June Bermondsey Project Space British Paintings 3 London

2021 May Savickas Art Gallery Vilnius Solo Following The Sun Vilnius

2021 January Group exhibition Sonia Monti Gallery Paris

2019 November Exhibit Here Art Maze Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf London

2019 September The New Artist Fair Trumans Brewery London

2019 February Group exhibition Exhibit Here Hope Menier Gallery London

2018 June Group exhibition, islington Summer Salon London

2018 March Talented Art Fair Old Truman Brewery Hanbury street London

2017 Group exhibition Finest Artist La Galleria Pall Mall Opera Arcade London