Vaida Kacergiene

About Vaida

Vaida Kacergiene was born on 15th of October in 1967, in Lithuania. From childhood romantic, melancholic, naive, believing in the most beautiful things in life - has remained so to this day.

She is a self-taught artist, expressing vision and feelings of the world through the visual arts. Started painting and drawing in adolescence, and several years ago renewed the creative activity, and shall be introduced as a creator of naive art as well as landscape, cityscape, nature painter. Using various techniques and styles, with no effort and no claim to follow, to correspond to professional art, but to come from an internal impulse and based on intuitive technical-plastic solutions. Until now, she has created more than 100 various paintings, drawings and sketches, each very individual, reflecting my own feelings and vision, mostly related to the inner world, relations, nature, and humans place in it.

Photography is with her already for more than 25 years. Family, travel, nature, landscape photography allow not only to fix important life events, but also to see beautiful details around us that encourage, bring calm and peace, help to make right decisions or let us feel better.

“Talk to the heart, let the soul be the driver, let the dreams be the friends showing the most beautiful and important details on the way” (Vaida Kacergiene)

Interview

ARTEOMAGAZINE N. 1 - December 2022

When did you develop an interest in art? What inspired you to enter the art field?

Art has been an important part of my life since childhood. But living conditions and possibilities at that time required practical solutions, and my main work, also my main profession, was not related to art; even though I'm very successful in my main profession. However, my inner world, personal nature didn't forget my interest in art, and just a little more than four years ago, one day I started drawing.. The feeling was that I can't wait any longer. I can confidently say - the need for self-expression through art, painting arose from inside me as something inevitable.

What is your motivation behind your works?

The biggest motivation - to show how beautiful human life is, how wonderful our surroundings are, and how important it is to live our lives to the fullest, even though we need to pass difficult moments in our lives. Painting, drawing helps to reflect this speechlessness, and can reach many souls from different parts of our planet; photography helps to highlight how many amazing moments are just nearby.

How does your creation process of the artworks start?

Mainly creation process of the artwork starts spontaneously, just looking at the empty canvas, and start seeing frames, or ideas are coming on the way - listening to a music, thinking about important things in the life, or just without any thinking or plan in advance - drawing or painting what's coming on the way at that moment. But also I have a lot of plans for creating with different media, on different surfaces, different styles.

What do you want your art to convey to the people?

Being sensitive to oneself, loved ones, environment, the planet, paying attention to small details, being grateful for what we have right now, listening to the voice of the heart would help to release more love in the world.

Talk to the heart, let the soul be the driver, let the dreams be the friends showing the most beautiful and important details on the way.