11-26 July 2018
During 2 weeks, together with 5 other artist, from Latvia, Lithuania, US, Australia and the Netherlands, we were painting in a little village in the Eastern Latvia.
Semenova, a village where we stayed, reminded me a lot of Poland. I literally felt I’ve travelled back in time where I was spending my holidays on a country side with my family as a child. It felt very nostalgic to me.
I’ve got inspired by the interiors of the school we lived in, where we ate and a library in Vilaka.
I loved the big windows with long curtains with floral or geometrical patterns, the colours of walls, and huge plants in each room. I also enjoyed the layering, when you look at the window. You see what is in front of it, behind a curtain, then there is a glass and a view. It made me thing of separate worlds put together in one image. This together with a nostalgic feeling I wanted to capture on my canvasses.
![Black window, acrylic on canvas, 100/70 cm, 2018](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df6d756b6d7ee63dfd7eda4c713a2d1888b09adfc456d55d576f74ce54941416/1a.jpg)
![White window, acrylic and oil on canvas, 100/70 cm, 2018](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fedc58ccbb1e4eef3b8a31dce92f17ec64b5e88120d3a109dbec95ae5ca6f04/2a.jpg)
![Interior with plants, acrylic and oil on canvas, 100/120 cm, 2018](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53cafa7b3424607f2d41a8389ca162e1cbdae58087f57ea3fe09fc1dfc9bad31/3a.jpg)
![Window, acrylic on canvas, 50/70 cm, 2018](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/999bf10ea4c62de481e924eeab8f0f96df5198fcbf30082475801922516979ee/5a.jpg)
![Orange window, acrylic and oil on canvas, 120/100 cm, 2018](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf9f388a2cdef453eb7227d9020d7afdd363be91667d4243e319c0ecedf89100/4a.jpg)
My inspiration:
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