TELL BEFORE SLEEP

Technique: Oil - cotton cover
Dimensions: 143x169 cm
Year of creation: 2019
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The painting presents an ethereal and dreamlike cityscape brimming with delicate, whimsical elements. At the forefront, soft, rosy floral shapes layered atop each other create a gentle curtain of blooms, perhaps resembling hollyhocks or fantasy-derived flora. Dots and dashes of white and various grays seem to represent either rain droplets or falling petals, enhancing the scene's misty, serene atmosphere.Behind this floral veil, the color palette shifts to a pastel-dominated view featuring yellows, blues, and mauves that fashion out a city or an elaborately adorned architectural setting. Various building-like structures rise, slender and elongated, with suggestions of spires and towers, possibly suggesting a cathedral or fairy-tale palaces. Some buildings feature soft, rounded outlines, contributing to the painting's overall softness and lack of harsh edges.There's a sweeping sense of both verticality and depth, achieved by layering the floral foreground over the urban background. A feeling of movement, almost like waves or a gentle breeze, permeates the composition, lending a transient, almost fragile quality to the painted city—a place that perhaps exists in a moment of quiet right before sleep, as the title suggests. The scene vibrates with dreamscape qualities, meshing reality with imagination in a dance of color, form, and texture.

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My name is Verdenė Monika Valkiūnaitė. In 2018 I graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts with a bachelor's degree in scenography and in 2021 - master's degree. Currently, I am intensively creating (scenographies, drawings, paintings) and participating in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.

In painting, I look for a style and expression that reflects my childhood experiences. I play and construct scenography on the planes and I look at the role of a scenographer from other angles, exclusively creating a sensual atmosphere on canvas.

For a long time, I didn’t draw sketches before painting I let everything appear on the canvas naturally, gradually, intuitively.

Multi-layering is important to me in canvases because of the depth and space created by it. Fresh, bright colors, their mutual contrasts and games played in paintings have an equally important role in painting also.

In exhibitions, I usually arrange the works in such a way that there is space to walk around, encounter obstacles or get to know characters you have never seen before, new, unexpected, sometimes cozy environments.

I don't believe in inspiration, I believe in constant work and searching, accumulating experiences, sifting through them, rethinking, reloading, analyzing, which later undergo transformation into works.

SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITIONS: 

2023-08/2023-09 “Savannid”, “Jakobi galerii”, Tartu, Estonija.

2023-05/2023-05 “Savanna and Other Spells” at the gallery “Baltasis koridorius”, Vilnius, Lithuania. 

2023-03/2023-03 “Savanna (demo)” at the gallery “T2”, Vilnius, Lithuania. 

2023-02/2023-03 at Ėriškės Cultural Center, Ėriškės, Lithuania. 

2020-09/2023-09 “Planes (after the exit of the gorillas)” at VAA Library, Vilnius, Lithuania. 

2020-07/2020-07 “Planes (after the exit of the gorillas)” at VAA gallery AKADEMIJA, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lithuanian Artists’ Association Member

Lithuanian Artists’ Association Member