Agnese Broka Emerging artist

Artist is based in: Latvia
Agnese Broka is a figurative painter who lives in Riga and has obtained a masters degree in painting from the Art academy of Latvia. Agnese works with oil colors and is interested in the fragility of the human mind. Agnese paints psychological portraits of a woman, trying to portray two seprate gazes – how sociaty views woman and how woman sees herself. Agnese captures portraits of people around her, who are deeply affected by this time period, when it seems that only true values are money and sexual gratification. Agnese paints human nature and is deeply interested in visualisation of inner state of soul. The characters she chooses are mostly her friends, colegues or herself. Agnese finds inspiration from stories of friends, family and herself, weaving them into reflecting paintings. To this day one of the greatest achievement of Agnese is winning a Rotary Arts Associations scholarship in Sweden and having her first solo exhibition at the Saab Art Gallery in Linköping. Agnese has also participated in multiple group exhibitions and one solo exhibittion in Latvia.