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 vast expanse of sand dunes under a broad sky. The predominant color is a golden yellow, suggesting the warmth of the sand. A substantial amount of the painting is devoted to the sky, where scattered clouds float in a blue expanse. The dunes are illustrated with sweeping, undulating contours that convey both the texture and the scale of the landscape. A rustic, makeshift fence runs unevenly through the scene, made up of wooden poles and split rails that look weather-worn and are held together by what appears to be wire or twine, creating a winding path that draws the viewer's eye across the composition. The fence serves as a visual guide, leading towards a denser area of green foliage in the distance, providing a contrast to the sandy tones. The landscape is marked by a serene and desolate beauty, evoking a sense of isolation and the vastness of nature. The painter's use of light and shadow across the dunes adds depth and realism to the scene.
