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ABOUT

My Inspiration

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I was born and raised in Lithuania in a family of an opera singer and a filmmaker. Although I did not begin painting and exhibiting my work until the age of 30, art was an important part of my life from an early age.

As a little girl traveling around the country with my Mother, I admired the work of traditional, mostly self-taught woodcarv

As a little girl traveling around the country with my Mother, I admired the work of traditional, mostly self-taught woodcarvers. I was fascinated by books featuring the works of Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Bosch, and Odilon Redon, as well as the poetry and visual art of Leonardas Gutauskas and M. K. Čiurlionis. My Father's film scenes and Mother's opera stage sets left a lasting impression on me.

Growing up in what often seemed like a black-and-white Soviet world, I found it surreal and captivating to hide among the hot projectors, absorbing the explosion of color unfolding on the stage. Those moments felt magical and became some of my earliest and most vivid artistic memories.

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My Inspiration

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I was introduced to intuitive painting while studying art at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. My teachers were Robert Spellman, Joan Anderson, and later, Nick Bantock, the renowned collage artist and author of the book series "Griffin & Sabine".

I work primarily on wood and canvas. I begin each piece without a specific idea in mind

I work primarily on wood and canvas. I begin each piece without a specific idea in mind, drawing lines and shapes that are followed by pools of diluted acrylic or oil paint. Fragments of a story gradually emerge through the processes of lifting paint, adding and erasing pencil marks, and sometimes sanding the surface.

When the experience is organic and unforced, it feels as though someone else is guiding my hand... and as if I am carving imaginary shapes from wood and fog.

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My Inspiration

Many of my mixed-media and oil paintings are inspired by early childhood experiences in the family homestead many kilometers outside Vilnius. There, I baked clay "pancakes" from muddy peat collected at a nearby pond. I helped my aunt and uncles churn butter, sharpened their knives on a leather strap hung on the wall of the barn and spun t

I often sat beneath an ancient oak tree nearby, listening to the storks nesting above, and made pens from the feathers they shed onto the ground. I loved creating clothes from unusual materials. Once, I made a winter coat from an old green parachute and repurposed the soles of a pair of plain sneakers to create my own version of ancient Greek sandals.

These early experiences of resourcefulness, imagination, and close connection to the natural world continue to inform my artistic practice today.

(The watercolor portrait of me as a child was painted by my father, Arūnas Žebriūnas, the acclaimed Lithuanian filmmaker.)

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My Inspiration

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My Inspiration

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My Inspiration

My Inspiration

My Inspiration

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