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 exhibits a serene landscape marked by a group of stylized trees dominating the foreground. Each tree displays a dense cluster of leaves, painted with thick, textured strokes in shades of mauve, pink, and brown, hinting at different hues of autumn. The trees' trunks are slender, dark, and tilt slightly, suggesting a gentle breeze in this tranquil setting. Behind the trees, the landscape opens into an expansive view. It features a layered composition of different fields; some are painted in bright greens, while others transition into ochres and muted yellows, possibly representing agricultural land in various stages of cultivation. The sky above is lively, brushed in strokes of pale blue and soft white, implying a clear day. Small flourishes of red and yellow throughout the fields suggest flowers or vibrant plant life, adding dots of color to an otherwise muted, pastoral palette. The handling of paint is loose and expressive, adding a dynamic texture that brings a vibrant, almost tactile quality to the scene.
