How often do you think (about) the landscape? Is a landscape just a landscape or does it carry something more?
To me, a landscape unfolds a special feeling in itself. It holds recollections of different spaces and time that feels almost motionless. In the present moment, imagination merges with the present and connects these feelings into a landscape. A landscape becomes not just physical, but embodies my memories, experience and identity.
I archive random bits and pieces of landscape images. This act of collecting I call Landscape Hunting. All the pieces are picked intuitively, but composed consciously. “It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection,” Agnes Martin wrote in her essay ‘Beauty Is the Mystery of Life‘. I believe that we indeed notice elements that truly speak to us. Everything in my paintings is related, the past unfolds the visions of the present and future. The simplicity of my landscapes is inspired by the Lithuanian and Dutch sceneries, their fields and farmsteads in the middle of nowhere, as in my painting ‘to long, too long‘. I invite you to think my landscapes and hunt what speaks to you.
