Daiva Margienė is an artist whose creative process centers on exploring the mysterious and the sacred. She values open, intuitive interaction with her senses, explaining that much of her inspiration comes from sudden insights. Margienė regards the physical depiction in her works as a fleeting ornament—something that continuously changes across time and space. Nevertheless, while viewers’ connections to these images shift, the core message persists.
During the last decade, a particularly active period in her painting, Margienė has witnessed her own evolution as an artist. Her inquiry is profoundly philosophical, concentrating on the relationship between what is tangible and what is not, between material and immaterial realms. Through her artistic practice, she seeks to examine the inner landscape and uncover the deeper significance she believes exists beyond outward appearance.
Margienė’s work strikes a fine balance between figurative representation and abstraction, establishing a distinctive visual language. She uses expressive, assured strokes to create and dissolve forms, encouraging the audience to recognize familiar shapes before they recede into abstraction. This shifting interplay keeps viewers engaged, continually challenging their perceptions and expectations.
In the end, Margienė considers the viewer indispensable in interpreting her pieces. She leads the audience to rely on intuition and the expressiveness of color, allowing each association to unfold into the next. In doing so, every painting becomes a unique journey of discovery, its meaning revealed through the viewer’s active participation and openness to perceiving what lies beyond the obvious.
About this artwork+
This painting presents a dynamic blend of colors and brushstrokes that create an impression of a fragmented landscape. Bold patches of dark green and black suggest dense foliage or shadowed areas amidst a dreamy expanse of soft whites, pale blues, and muted yellows. Throughout the piece, there are hints of architectural forms, perhaps houses or buildings, that appear almost dissolved, their edges and lines softened to near oblivion by the surrounding mists or the painterly technique itself. The overall effect is one of a landscape in the process of fading out of view, its features merging into each other and into the light-colored background that dominates the canvas. The scene is both tranquil and slightly melancholic, evoking a sense of ephemerality and impermanence.
