Arvydas Kašauskas was born in 1959 in Vilnius. From 1977 to 1982, he studied fresco and mosaic at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
“The quality of art remains a matter of the author’s ambition and integrity,” says Kašauskas. In simple terms, art is good when the artist cares and stays honest.
Kašauskas was trained in monumental art—a discipline focused on scale, structure, and permanence. This background still shapes his work today. He approaches painting not as simple depiction, but as construction: each piece is built, carrying a sense of weight and space.
After the fall of the Soviet regime, he began working independently, moving from public, state-commissioned frescoes to more intimate canvas works. While the scale changed, his material approach remained.
Paint is not just applied—it is scraped, pressed, and layered, creating dense, tactile surfaces. His work balances control with unpredictability.
Looking back, Kašauskas describes his early artistic drive as a search for “a brighter, more compelling life,” shaped by a time when art held a distinct cultural role.
Today, he sees creativity as something open to everyone—not limited to artists, but available to anyone shaping their life with intention.
Landscape remains a constant in his work. Often painting outdoors, he draws from the energy of place and shared creative experience. Even in abstraction, nature is still present—reduced to rhythm, form, and space.
For Kašauskas, every painting is, ultimately, an abstraction.
About this artwork+
The painting captures a vibrant, abstract forest scene, filled with expressive, thick brushstrokes that convey the lushness and vitality of nature. The foreground is dominated by tall, slender tree trunks, vertically oriented and painted with strokes of dark brown and black, amidst splashes of vivid colors such as red, purple, and blue, suggesting the presence of other trees or perhaps flowering plants. The background reveals patches of light sky blues and cloud-like whites, interspersed with more abstract shapes in yellows and greens, possibly depicting the sunlit canopy or distant foliage. Shadows and light dance across the forest floor, rendered in strokes of whites and yellows, suggesting sunlight filtering through the treetops. The entire scene is alive with motion and color, almost pulsating with the energy of the natural world.
