THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY: FROM LITHUANIA TO WALES—HOW COLOR AND EXPERIENCE SHAPE MY ART
When people ask me why I paint, I tell them: I don't have a choice. The need to translate emotion into color, to capture the intangible feeling of a moment and make it visible—it's not something I decided to do. It's something I have to do.
My journey to this point has been anything but linear. I was born in Lithuania in 1989, during the post-Soviet era, growing up navigating Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian languages and cultures. This multilingual foundation shaped how I perceive the world. Later, in my twenties, I moved to London, adding English as my fourth language. After time in Bristol, I've now settled in Wales, where my practice continues to evolve.
Every place I've lived has left its mark on my work. But it's only now, here in Wales, that I've fully understood what drives me: the need to create art that feels rather than depicts, that speaks to the soul rather than the eye.
The Philosophy: Emotion Over Form
I'm a contemporary abstract painter working with colour, texture, and movement. Rather than planning compositions around recognizable subjects, I let intuition and feeling guide each piece. Working primarily with acrylics, I build layers of colour and texture that evoke atmosphere and mood. The process becomes a translation—taking internal experiences and rendering them in paint.
Each piece becomes a meditation on moments of joy, stillness, energy, or contemplation.
This wasn't always how I worked. There was a moment when my practice shifted fundamentally. I was in the middle of a large canvas, trying to paint the cosmos. Something felt incomplete. The work remained unfinished for years.
A decade later, after becoming a father, I introduced my young son to painting. His joyful creative energy, the way he fearlessly applied colour to canvas—it awakened something in me. I found myself using the leftover paints from his palette, adding playful, colorful strokes to layers that had sat dormant for years. Suddenly, the missing piece revealed itself. "Space and Time" was finally complete. It had taken a decade and the creative innocence of my child to make the work whole.
That painting taught me everything about my practice. It showed me that art isn't about perfection or control—it's about creation, growth, and allowing life to flow into the work.
The Paintings: Stories in Color
Each work in my collection tells a different emotional story. Let me share some of them:
Sisters Knowledge explores the deep connection between sisterhood and shared experience. Rendered in vibrant blues and golds, it speaks to the warmth of genuine human bonds and the wisdom that comes from knowing someone deeply.
Holland's Tulips was born from my travels through the Dutch countryside. I was deeply grateful for the opportunity to experience such a unique, cosmopolitan place. The beauty of its landscapes and the immersive culture of love and admiration for tulips left a lasting impression on my heart. This painting captures that gratitude in impressionistic brushwork and vibrant hues.
Autumn Leaves emerged as a bright counter-reaction to feedback that some of my earlier work felt too dark. Instead of softening the emotion, I decided to push it into lights—exploring how to work with white and luminosity on the canvas. Created at the very end of summer, it carries that crisp, clear feeling you get from colorful autumn days. Though it appears floral at first glance, it's really bound to the emotion and memory of those sunny, cool, vividly colored autumn moments.
Space and Time, as I mentioned, is my meditation on how time travels through our lives. It's a painting about fatherhood, creativity, and the beautiful accidents that make art truly alive. If you take time to immerse yourself in it, you'll discover countless hidden details—a banana, a dolphin, a skull, and endless other forms waiting to be found. This piece never disappoints—it reveals something new with each viewing.
Poppy in Space, Cherry Blossom, Luna, and The Lollipops—each explores different dimensions of color psychology and emotion. Whether it's the celebration of childhood sweetness and simple pleasures, the delicate wonder of nature's transformation, or the mystery of night skies, each piece invites you to feel first, think second.
Works like Piano Man celebrate the passion of musicians and artists. Toddlers Job honors childhood creativity. End of Summer captures the bittersweet beauty of seasonal change. Fire Flower and Bumblebee celebrate nature's small wonders and their profound impact on our emotional landscape.
Why This Matters
Here's what I've learned: emotion is the most honest language. In a world of over 1.5 billion websites, what sets art apart isn't how "professional" it looks. It's whether your story—your authentic, vulnerable, fearless story—comes through.
My paintings are held in private collections across the UK and Europe. But more than that, I hope they're held in hearts. If a piece resonates with you or stirs something within, I'd be happy to connect. Because ultimately, this gallery exists to share the emotional journey. Art isn't just about what's on the canvas—it's about the viewer's experience, their reflection, their moment of stillness in a chaotic world.
Every brushstroke is an act of trust. Trust in intuition. Trust in color. Trust in the power of feeling made visible.
