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+
The painting captures a surreal, almost ethereal scene where figures and elements blend into each other with fluid, overlapping contours and a palette of muted greens, blues, and pinks. The central figure, rendered with a cool blue tone, has a contemplative expression and appears to be gazing down at an object in its hands, evoking a sense of introspection or discovery. This figure is partly immersed in swirling layers of color, suggesting a setting that is perhaps aquatic or dreamlike. To the right, a hint of another figure in pink seems to be floating or dissolving into the background, adding to the overall feel of weightlessness and the ephemeral. The use of color, light, and fluid brushstrokes creates a dynamic composition that seems to fluctuate between reality and abstraction, inviting the viewer to delve into this introspective world.
