Printmaking
My interest in Printmaking started while studying Art History & Theory at Vilnius Academy of Arts. As part of the Academic Curriculum, we were urged to try various other forms of creative expression in other of the Academy’s departments in order to have a first-hand experience and understanding of the various processes and thus to be able to write about it with certainty. Printmaking was my first choice. I was very lucky that Lithuanian – Parisian based graphic artist and intellectual Žibuntas Mikšys (1923-2013) came to Vilnius to deliver a creative workshop at the time. His lucid presence, creativity, humour, and occasionally his scathing remarks, breaking the mold of artistic paradigms at the time, as well as his sensitivity, is the impetus behind the imparted love for the medium.
Witch Apparitions. Non-toxic intaglio, collage. 45 x 38. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Die Vier Hexen (The Four Witches, 1497).
Dedicated to Tori Amos. Non-toxic intaglio, collage, monotype. 66 x 49.
Eolas. Non-toxic intaglio. 45 x 50.
Beach I. Triptych. Non-toxic intaglio, collage, monotype. 48 x 65.
Beach II. Triptych. Non-toxic intaglio, collage, monotype. 48 x 65.
Beach III. Triptych. Non-toxic intaglio, collage, monotype. 48 x 65.
City II. Triptych. Lithography, dry point. 53 x 40.
A Star. Non-toxic intaglio, collage, monotype. 45 x 67. If you look closely, you'll find a child's face above the horizon, you can barely make out the eye and outline of the face, but it’s there – the loving connection between a mother and her child.
Poise. Non-toxic intaglio, collage, monotype. 66 x 49.
A City in a Desert. Non-toxic intaglio, collage. 45 x 67.
Sounds. Non-toxic intaglio, monotype. 68 x 53.
A Face. Non-toxic intaglio. 20 x 14.
Water. Non-toxic intaglio, collage, monotype. 67 x 49.
A Crane. Woodcut on rice paper with speckles of silver and gold. 35 x 22. Inspired by much admired documentary The Life of Birds, presented by David Attenborough.
Birds II. Woodcut on rice paper. 55 x 79. Inspired by much admired documentary The Life of Birds, presented by David Attenborough.
Birds I. Woodcut on rice paper. 55 x 79. Inspired by much admired documentary The Life of Birds, presented by David Attenborough.
Sun & Rain. Non-toxic intaglio. 20 x 14.
“By the refined aesthetic means of the art piece we are attracted or, better to say, seduced into the world, where beside the fantastic surface basic human experiences of good and evil hides. Last but not least, the artist tackles such conceptions and terms as sin, evil, light, darkness, decline, resurrection, which we are forced to be related to, not only on the aesthetic, but also on the existential plan.”
For Tori Amos, non-toxic intaglio, collage