For two weeks, ceramic artists from the Baltic States worked together in a joint symposium, where each interpreted the rich palette of opportunities afforded by the material. Freed from their day-to-day cares, urban frenzy and the many responsibilities associated with country life, the artists could soak up inspiration from the …

This retrospective of Hsiao Chin at the Mark Rothko Art Centre is a marvellous opportunity for Europe to experience an artist whose work is neither simply Chinese, nor simply European. It is both. Hsiao Chin was born in Shanghai in 1935 and his work is saturated with a profound understanding …

The exhibition “Two Summits” is a meeting of two excellences in a single art space. Painter Silva Linarte (1939–2018) and ceramicist Pēteris Martinsons (1931–2014) both carried the code of Latgale, which programmed each of them for greatness through a natural talent for the arts and educational work and an inexhaustible …

From the inside out is a road that everyone follows throughout the entire course their life. Understanding the comprehensible and comprehending the understandable are the travel forms of the human spirit through which it moves further and further away from its source and approaches the great unknown. All peoples at …

You Only Need to Know How to See and Hear to Understand – His Paintings Have a SoundHunt Slonem is one of those artists who are able to magically create an entire world with their art – a world that is expressive and bright. I also find colour in painting …

“My medium is the material – clay, stoneware, porcelain. Exposure to these materials gives me creative ideas, visual stories and sculpturesque solutions. In storytelling, form has a massive significance. Volume, dimensional ratio and scale are the backbone of composition. What matters to me is addressing the shape of the material …

Humans and time form a complex equation that can be examined from a variety of angles, such as: one’s location in time; one’s personal sense of time; after all, reflection on what time actually is.

The exhibition seeks to explore and challenge the versatility of ceramics as a creative medium: being universal and unique, sustainable and enduring, this material encompasses poetry, narrative, fiction and complexity.

In anticipation of Mark Rothko’s 116th birthday, at 4 p.m. on 20 September a new exhibition season, conceived as a tribute to painting, will be opened at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre.

One of Britain’s most significant abstract painters, known for her huge vibrant canvases bursting with colour. Inspired by abstract expressionist art in the United States, Ayres painted in a lyrical, gestural, non-geometric abstract style that stood in contrast to the hard-edge forms of her contemporaries. Never didactic, her oeuvre illustrates …