Many describe my artwork as coherent and unified. What led to this consistency? I am not a slave to stability, but I do not want to create anything artificially. Sometimes I curse myself for repeating compositions, but unless I feel a inner necessity, I don't force it. My goal is to achieve the power of expression with minimal means. I believe that over the years, I have changed, although many motifs and plot lines have stayed with me since my youth, my outlook on things has changed. I myself have noticed that my brushstroke has become clearer, brighter, and there are fewer tragic, dark accents. However, I still like to see my grandmother with a goat, a bouquet of poppy seeds stuck in her apron, a bird resting on a woman's shoulder. I still love to hug a tree while being in nature, to catch and release a fish back into the water... There is enough ugliness in everyday life, why would I want to fill my paintings with it? But in my eyes, there is beauty in that ugliness, and even unpleasant heroes, such as a drunken woman offering hills to you, have their own kind of poetry. Painting for me is not an outpouring of anger or pent-up negative emotions. Painting is perhaps a memory, like an island taking shape in the fog as a boat sails away. I am not an objective observer, trying to capture reality with pedantic accuracy. Once, I drove past and saw a man and woman hugging each other so naturally, holding each other so naturally that it was impossible to imagine it. Oh, how glad I am that I passed by! Generally speaking, I do not like to create topics out of thin air; all the plots arise "from the ground". It would not be difficult to paint some watercolors in a square, but I prefer to walk, look around, take note of pastel colors and only then paint - that's my method, which does not interfere with nature's offering. Scenes of love are very common in my art. Women drift through the air like angel wings. The main themes are fate, loneliness, the unity of man and nature, depictions of villages left and leaving... I am a museum author. My works can be found in Lithuania at LNDM, NČDM, Tartle, Latvia's NDM, and the Tretyakov Gallery.
