GINTARIS

I was born in 1959 in KAUNAS city. I grew up, studied and graduated, After that, I studied design at VDI (now VDA). This gave rise to another understanding of form.

started teaching design at the Kaunas Faculty of VDA. I was invited to KTU for design lectures, a year later we founded the department of artistic design. I became the head of the department and was the head for 12 years.

Professor, member of the Union of Lithuanian Artists.

I like to use monolithic traditional materials in my work - stone, wood, metal. Touching a block or piece can give it a unique shape. Sometimes unexpected and unusual for this material. What else would I do - I admire the work process, especially the beginning, the first touches, when the whole creative process is still ahead, and I can already see the vision of the finished work. I try to see and emphasize various natural textures of nature. I leave an idea in my works, sometimes grotesque, sometimes ambiguous. Creativity, like life, is a wonderful game that reflects moods, emotions, and thinking.

After stones, drilling, drawing projects and organizing work, I want to relax, escape a little. Then I resort to color. I created my own tools, mastered a unique painting technique with enamels/oil paint, I choose a color, choose paints, canvases, environment, musical background, take a deep breath of air and go...

The game with colors begins. Colors flow, connect with each other, explode, unexpected reactions take place. In other layers, drawings are born, often decorative, in which I use rhythm, shape, size, silhouette or color contrasts.

I think that my painting is a decorative, free, color composition for the interior, which does not oblige us to dive into deep thoughts or search for an idea, but in the works we can see motives or even images that we want to see