Biography :

1945: born in Riga, Latvia.
1958- 1965: Janis Rozentals Art Highschool.
1966-1974: Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department.

Creative Activities: painting, animation films and book illustrations for children.
Member of the Latvian Artists Society since 1976.

Exhibitions :

Since 1969, regular participation in more than 60 exhibitions in Latvia and abroad.  Among them :

1979: Baltic young artists exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.
1981: Vilnius Painting Triennial.
1989: The USSR Painting Exhibition, Moscow.
1990: The Vilnius Book Illustration Triennial.
1998: II All Latvian Art Exhibition, Riga, Latvia.
1989: Riga Days in Bremen, Germany: Lettische Malerei.
1990: Malerei der achtzigen Jahre aus Lettland Riga, Munchen Hilton.
1995: Arte Fiera 95. International Fair of Contemporary Art, Bologna.
2001: Classic VIII International Biennial, Kortrijk, Belgium.
2003: d’Haudrecy Art Gallery, Belgium (solo)
2003: Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton N.J., USA
2003: Blackheath Gallery, London, UK
2003: El Cantil Gallery, Santander, Spain
2005: El Cantil Galeria de Arte, Puente Arce, Spain(solo)
2006: Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, UK
2007: Gallery Strenger, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Some words of the artist :

“Nothing has to stand out.  Sense, colour, composition, inner energy in action, all in ideal proportion.  Image is my language.  It contains all the necessary information.  If I need words they appear in my pictures.  What is significant in life, in art ?  In life it is love; in art it is the inner energy in action.  I am fascinated by theatre.  Therefore I “play” my paintings.  Every picture reveals real persons in real situations, and I am the producer.  When I meet those persons in real life, I am shy…  There are paintings that are born ready in my mind.  There exist ideas which I can’t grab at once, those are developed on paper.  There are works which just pop out.  Time will decide what has been worthy, what has been a mistake.  Life is a row of occasions.  So are my pictures.  But everybody has the right to see things differently.  The author and his work is one combination of perception, the spectator and the piece of art, the author and the spectator other perception…”

Laima Eglite