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 portrays a vibrant forest landscape, infused with a lively, impressionistic touch. At the forefront, clumps of dense, leafy bushes in hues of olive, amber, and sienna cluster together, forming a rich tapestry of autumnal colors. Behind these, the scene opens up into a mystical backdrop where slender tree trunks rise. These trunks are painted in a combination of deep blues and greens, contrasting starkly with the whimsical strokes of lavender and pink that suggest a canopy of leaves or perhaps light filtering through the forest. This palette creates a dreamlike veil, giving the sense of gazing through a curtain made of trees and light. Further in the background, isolated trees in simplified forms and lighter shades dot the landscape, adding depth and drawing the eye into the depths of this wooded scene. The ground, visible in patches through the vegetation, appears soft and undefined, contributing to the overall ethereal quality of the painting.
