My work begins with sensation: light moving across a surface, the temperature of a room, the weight of oil paint, a piece of music shifting the energy in a space. Small changes can carry enormous intensity, and I am interested in what happens when that intensity, felt internally, becomes physical.

I work in oil, across several canvases at once, building the surface slowly through layers of colour and transparency. At a certain point I interrupt that control with a gesture I cannot fully predict: a single large line, made once and rarely corrected. The painting has to absorb what happened and continue from there. I am not interested in a gesture that looks spontaneous. It has to have actually happened.

Music shapes the structure of the work as much as anything visual. I rarely paint in silence. From Rachmaninoff and Ravel to Miles Davis and Led Zeppelin, what draws me is not genre but tension: how music builds, withholds and releases, and how a change in tempo can alter the speed of my hand or the direction of an entire painting. Kandinsky’s understanding of colour as rhythm remains a constant reference.

Memory runs through the work. I grew up in Lithuania in the 1990s and later lived in New York, where I trained as an actor and performed for many years. Each place changed how I see. I am fascinated by how a memory can stay vivid while the person who lived it has already changed. Painting lets different times and versions of myself exist on one surface without resolving into a single story.

For me, imagination has never been an escape from reality. It is where reality begins.

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