The landscape is a desire and an opportunity to paint the powerful experience of life. An infinite one. Unfathomable. Endlessly happening, in the past, present, and forever. Happening in the depths and the air. Renewing constantly. Transforming into a new form, in the same familiar place where I grew my roots. This is how Gražina Janina Vitartaitė, a painter, describes the essence of her art. She is well-known for her distinctive landscapes, which exude nature's lyrical and elemental qualities, illusions, and a virtuosity of technique. Her abstract and fantasy-imbued impressions go far beyond the boundaries of traditional genre and expand the context of Lithuanian landscape painting. By combining traditional painting principles with contemporary conceptual artistic thinking, she merges realism and abstraction to create associative, dynamic images that immerse the viewer in an unusual realm of experience. From 1980 to 1989, she was the head of the painting department at the State Art Institute (now the Art Academy), where she also served as an associate professor. She has held over 70 solo exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, and her works have been acquired by Lithuanian museums (LDM, NČDM), the Russian Art Fund, public institutions (the Lithuanian Parliament, the Lithuanian Government building, the Baltic Government House, and others), art galleries, and private collections in Lithuania, America, and various European countries. G. Vitartaitė has published several painting albums: "Towards Inner Freedom" (2007), "The Curonian Spit / Die Kurische Nehrung. Painting" (2010), "Metamorphoses of the Landscape" (2015), and "Gražina Vitartaitė. Krekenavos Regional Park. Painting" (2020). A documentary film "Towards Inner Freedom" (2013) directed by A. Tarvydas and a TV program "Artist Portraits" (2017) produced by LRT and directed by V. Beconienė were made about G. Vitartaitė's art. She is also well appreciated by art critic Gražina Gurnevičiūtė.