Birutė Nomeda Stankūnienė

To belive in unconditional meaning of life and creativity (parafrasing Victor Frank)

I’m an abstract artist living and working in Lithuania, post soviet country.
The search for the purpose of life led me to abstract painting.
I would describe my creativity in two words; 'existential movement'.

The significant turning point in my career was influenced by the collapse of the Soviet Union, where abstract painting and psychoanalysis were forbidden.  

My engineering background and design studies influences my creative process till now. During studies, I discovered that abstract painting allows me to convey an emotion, an event, or a psychologic state in a generalized color spot, line, or three-dimensional form. Just like in physics, I could describe an ongoing phenomenon with a summarizing formula.

My current formulas take the shape of abstract gesture paintings, and my symbols are canvas, paper, oil, acrylic, and other materials under my control.

I can't stop searching, and experimenting with mediums and materials

Sometimes I want a rich brush stroke, at other times a light watercolor stain . Sometimes I create my own world of painting from small scraps of paper, cellophane, and foil.

The names of the artworks is very important for me as well.

The satisfaction comes from the creative process when I discover something new for myself. I hope for the viewer as well.

At the moment I'm interested in exploring ideas and themes in a series of artworks, rather than with an individual painting. 

-- Birutė Nomeda Stankūnienė