Fate was generous to Angelina Banyte (b. 1949): she attended the third batch of Čiurlionis, graduated from the M. K. Čiurlionis Secondary School of Art in 1968, and her diploma work was supervised by painter Vytautas Ciplijauskas. At the Lithuanian State Art Institute (now Vilnius Academy of Arts) he studied fresco and mosaic under Prof. Sofija Veiverytė. The artist took over her teacher's style of masterful drawing, which was precise and expressive, and perfected it in her own way, creating a distinctive sense of architectural thinking and space. After graduating in 1974, the artist was looking for a place to settle down, to establish her living and working conditions. In 1976, Alfonsas Žalys, the legendary custodian of the city of Klaipėda, invited the talented artist to come to the port city, gave her an apartment and a workshop, and thus created conditions for her to live and create. The year 1978 was an important one in the artist's life, when she held her first solo exhibition and was accepted into the Lithuanian Artists' Union. Banytė belongs to the generation of monumentalist painters who, figuratively speaking, did not need an easel. She stood in front of the wall as others stood in front of an easel. A couple of square metres is not a lot for a master of pure painting, while for the monumentalist Banyte the usual average format is about 15 square metres. There are many walls on which monumental paintings, frescoes, sgraffito and mosaics were slowly born, as far as technology and creative forces allowed. The Pranas Domšaitis Gallery (Liepų g. 33, Klaipėda) will be open until 1 December.