A Family Portrait

Individual Portraits

Family portraits

Žemyna, Goddess of Life on Earth

Žemyna is the goddess of Earth in Lithuanian mythology. She personifies fertility.  The word žemė in Lithuanian means “earth”. In this image, the Goddess is a life giver and protector; she vivifies soil after drought with pure water extending from her veins. Ordinarily, she is thought of a mother or pregnant female carrying out Lithuanian woman’s features.  Her succulent breasts state she has just given birth to life. Silky winds drape the Goddess’s bare body with garland of spring cherry and apple blossoms creating a unique link to natives’ experience. She is stepping out of the Earth to take care of the new gardens and old forests. Her footprints leave vegetation on her path. On her left, the Sun is coming up over the horizon of Lithuania’s only sea, the Baltic.  In her right hand, she is holding a lantern with the full Moon in it to brighten the night in a cold winter.  The painting is loaded with symbols of this Baltic country that
includes the following:

Sand dunes separating the bay from the sea;
A cow lying next to hay stacks in the far distance;
Old village homes, barns and stone wells;
A family man fishing in a river with the grand moon reflecting into the late night water behind him;
To the left, there are ice-skating families on a frozen lake in winter
On the bottom right, the artist imprinted working together neighbors harvesting crops in the late summer;
Women placing crowns of fresh field flowers with lit candles down the river in honor of St. John’s day;
Four seasons (snow covered forests and fields for winter best enjoyed in the moonlight, lightening strikes for early spring before the sunrise, the Sun bringing warmth into the summer, and autumn at harvest time);

There is no other portrait of this kind anywhere else in the world!  This is Lithuanian artist’s masterpiece dreamed and thought of for more than 15 years. It can not be reprinted or repainted again.

Oil Paintings on Canvas

 

Murals

Acrylics on Canvas

11 year old girl’s room

Homarama Show 2007