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I remember myself drawing, when I was a child.
I painted with aquarelle.
My mother told that I was often crying and shouting,
until she gave me colors.
In Lithuania I loved to draw, to paint...
I had many beautiful naturmorts and portraits.
But composition...
(that's how a personal creativity lessons are called in Lithuania),
I didn't like it, because I had a lack of ideas.
I even had thoughts of studying something else
Maybe history or with horses something...
I wasn't sure if I am in a right way
I found landscapes when I started to study in Paris Art Academy
Sometimes a professor of painting assigned
to do 3 paintings, 5 drawings
or 20 sketches of my own room.
And you have to do it all for the next week.
It's pretty hard when you live in a 4 sq/m size room
and you have to draw 20 sketches of it.
The most difficult part was that huge quantity.
That was the way how my first landscape series were born.
You walk in the nature, see all that views which interests you.
I capture them with my photo camera,
because I don't paint in nature.
Usually I paint when I am not in Lithuania.
In Lithuania I spend a week or two
and capture as many views, as I can,
views that are interesting to me.
When making photos,
I choose compositions, as they were on canvas.
Many people ask:
"why aren't you painting French landscape?"
"Why not Copenhagen?"
"Why is that Lithuanian landscape?"
"Maybe you'll start painting French landscape?"
Lithuanian landscape has a historical value for me.
Personal, historical, reminiscences, experiences...
In my artworks I try not only to show the nature,
but to express that feeling which I have while watching at that view.
I leave some space for the spectator,
who comes with his imagination and worldview
and understands the artwork in his own way.
I try that spectator could feel an atmosphere and strangeness of it.
That he could feel himself as he is in that space for real,
as if he was in that landscape.