Artwork in the room
Ina Loreta Savickienė works with ink and mineral pigments on rice paper, exploring East Asian painting traditions, including Chinese gongbi and xieyi, as well as Japanese sumi-e and nihonga.
While working across different cultural traditions, the artist does not aim at stylistic imitation. Instead, she seeks a personal visual language in which painting becomes a way of experiencing time, silence, and the natural processes of change. Her work is defined by a balance between control and chance: the line remains disciplined, yet the material itself is allowed to act. This tension creates a living, shifting image, where form may appear only as a suggestion and space remains open and undefined.
Color and background play a significant role in her work, not as decorative elements but as atmospheric space. Mineral pigments are layered so that color functions like light, mist, or air. The background is never neutral — it envelops the motif, giving it depth and mood. Light is not depicted directly, but emerges through tonal intensity, transitions, and the relationship with empty space.
The artist paints natural motifs—trees, landscapes, plants, courtyards, and gardens—interpreting them through the aesthetics of East Asian painting. Where Eastern artistic philosophy meets the experience of the Baltic landscape, familiar images acquire a new, contemplative resonance, inviting the viewer to pause and experience moments of stillness and harmony.
Ina Loreta Savickienė has held the official status of an artist since 2020. She has organized over 10 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
About this artwork+
The painting depicts a striking and abstract landscape, split into two distinct panels. On the left, a vibrant configuration of rounded, organic shapes in shades of yellow and gold suggests a dense cluster of autumn trees or foliage. These forms are speckled with white and enveloped by twisting, leafless tree branches in white and gray, which stand out against the warm background. The right panel contrasts sharply with a cooler, stone-like texture in monochrome. This side mimics a cliff or rock face, detailed with intricate, web-like patterns that closely resemble geological formations or perhaps coral-like textures. The entire scene merges nature with an almost otherworldly aesthetic, invoking a sense of both familiarity and alien mystique.
