About me

I am a Lithuanian, living between two countries – Lithuania, where I was born and grew up, and Denmark, where I have spent more than half of my life, built a family, and created my Danish “existence". Every day I move between two languages, two cultures, two senses of humor, and different social norms and life roles. Sometimes I catch myself asking: am I Danish, or am I Lithuanian?

 

My academic background is in business management, and for many years I worked in international business and innovation within Danish companies. In 2023, I chose to step away from the comfort of that life, to let go of the roles of the “successful businesswoman” and the “well-integrated immigrant,” and to dedicate myself fully to an old childhood dream – painting. Since 2022, I have studied painting and other art disciplines at various art schools and institutions in Lithuania and Denmark, participated in solo and group exhibitions, and I am now enrolled in the Master’s programme in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

 

In my paintings, I am drawn to the themes of human change and personal transformation. Traveling often between Denmark and Lithuania, I began to see the airport as a symbol of change – a place of transitions, migration, waiting, dreaming, where people experience uncertainty, loneliness, fear, and hope. From this reflection, my series Airport Stories was born.

 

Exploring transformation as the tension between everyday reality and inner longings, I often draw on experiences that are both deeply personal and universally human – and at the same time distinctly feminine: womanhood, motherhood, the search for meaning, and questions of identity within the contexts of family, daily life, migration, childhood memories, and present-day realities. This is an endless creative space, inspiring many of the works within my painting portfolio Dreamcatcher: Where Did I Go.

 

And then there are moments when I am simply taken by nature – its beauty, stillness, and emotion. In those moments I paint here and now, letting the brushes move freely across the canvas, without thought or plan. The colors flow by themselves, and the painting emerges, inspired by the intensity of that moment – by the fleeting breath of life here and now.