About Me
Education and qualifications
Born: 22 November 1963.
Studies: Kaunas A. Martinaitis Art School in Lithuania, 1991 - 1995. Course of Iconography at The Fellowship of St. Luke, London, UK, 2008. Attended Course of Figurative Sculpture at RACC, London, UK, 2010-2015. Attended Life Drawing Course at Royal Drawing School, London, UK, 2011-2012. Graduated with a PhD from The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, (University of Wales) London, UK, 2018.
Works in collections: The State Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow (Russia), M. Tsvetayeva Museum, Moscow (Russia), International Art Found, Moscow(Russia), Lithuanian Embassy, Moscow (Russia), The Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow (Russia), A. Akhmatova “Serebriany Vek” (The Silver Age) Municipal Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia), Florian Museum, Carbunari (Romania), Tallinn Zoo (Estonia), Vatopaidi Monastery, Zograf Monastery (The Holy Mount Athos, Greece), Dumfries House, Ayrshire (Scotland) also in the private collections in Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, Belgium, Germany, USA, UK, Canada, Italy, Spain, France, Ukraine.
Memberships: Member of British Association of Iconographers from 2008; Member of Chelsea Art Society from 2017.
Grants: A.G Leventis Foundation 2014 – 2018.
Media: Bronze
Exhibitions, Competitions, Festivals
2019 The Seventy_Second Exhibition of the Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Old Hall, London, UK. Exhibition of Chelsea Art Society: Ebb and Flow: a Chelsea Perspective, GrandyArt Gallery, London, UK.
2018 The solo exhibition of sculptures, Lithuanian Embassy in Berlin, Germany. Alumni Show at Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London. Exhibition: Contemporary Arts Through Living Tradition, The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London, UK. The Spring Festival Exhibition CLAUDIUS A Celebration of Portraiture, Life Drawing & the Figure in the Landscape, The Alde Valley Spring Festival 2018, White House Farm, Great Glemham, Suffolk, UK. The Seventy –First Exhibition of the Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK. BAI exhibition Icons for Unity, St.Saviour’s Church, Pimlicco, London, UK.
2017 Winter Art Exhibition, Tabernacle Gallery, London, UK; Art Exhibition, Mavi Art Studio, Richmond, London, UK. The solo exhibition of sculptures, Lithuanian Embassy in Brussels, Belgium. The Seventieth Exhibition of the Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK. ACF Salon Style Exhibition, Candid Arts Gallery, London, UK.
2016 Exhibition of “Icons Byzantium Endures”, at Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK; Solo exhibition of sculpture, drawing and painting, Lithuanian Embassy The Hague, Netherlands; Chelsea Art Society “69th Annual Open Exhibition”, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK. The Bedford Park Festival, Exhibition of Figurative Sculpture, Turnham Green, London, UK.
2015 The Art Exhibition “1215 Runnymede Revisited, St Peter’s Church, Oare, Kent, Canterbury Festival, UK; Exhibition of iconography, “Icons for Peace”, Church of St Saviour, Pimlico, London, UK; Chelsea Art Society “68th Annual Open Exhibition”, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK.
2014 Autumn Exhibition of Art, Tabernacle Gallery, London UK.
2013 Art Exhibition “Following the footsteps of the Tsars in London”, Rossotrudnichestvo, Kensington, London; Honeywood Museum, Carshalton, UK. Solo Exhibition of bronze icons, The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints, Knightsbridge, London, UK. “Icon Anicon”, Lady Chapel at Wells Cathedral, Wells, UK. Chelsea Art Society “66th Annual Open Exhibition”, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK.
2012 The Exhibition "The Mystical Rose in the Month of May”, Lady Chapel at Wells Cathedral, Wells, UK. “Icons Today”, 10th Anniversary of British Association of Iconographers, Church of St Saviour Pimlico, London, UK. Art Exhibition “The exhibition of painting, drawing, photography and sculpture”, St Martins-in-the-Fields Gallery, Trafalgar Sq, London, UK.
2011 Art Exhibition “Playing with a Shadow, Lumen Gallery. Bloomsbury Festival, London, UK. Exhibition “Wilno - miasto bez imienia” (Vilnius_the city without name), POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London, UK.
2010 Solo exhibition of bronze icons, St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, Wales. The Russian Eastern & Oriental Fine Art Fair, Park Lane Hotel London represented by Hay Hill Gallery) UK. Group Art Exhibition “20 Years Of Russians In Britain”, Europe Gallery, Sutton Central Library, Sutton, UK. Exhibition of Bronze Icons, Cathedral of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of the God and Holy Royal Martyrs, London, UK.
2009 Exhibition “Horse”, Sienko Studio Gallery, London, UK. Exhibition “Bronze Relief Icons”, Sacred Space Gallery, London, UK. M. Rostropovich Foundation Charity Auction, London, UK; Group Exhibition “Four Seasons – Autumn”, Rickshaw House, Southwark, London, UK. An Exhibition of Icons, Church of the Holy Trinity, Weston.
2008 Exhibition “Russian Winter Collection” 54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, London, UK; Exhibition “Dialects”, Pushkin House, London, UK; Exhibition at Brunel Museum, London, UK.; Exhibition “Kitur. Elswhere”, at Lithuanian Embassy, London, UK.
2007„Images of The Divine“, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, London, UK; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture and Bronze Icons, 9 Worple Way Gallery, Richmond, Surrey, UK; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture and Bronze Icons , Jurbarkas Town Museum, Jurbarkas, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture and Bronze Icons, Gallery “Shulinys“ , Kernave, Lithuania; International Jewellerey London 2007, with Sardi Designs Ltd, Earls Court, London, UK.
2006 Annual Art Exhibition, Orangery Gallery, Holland Park, London, UK; Borough Open Exhibition, Central Space Gallery, Hammersmith, London, UK; Solo Exhibition, Ice House Gallery, Holland Park, London, UK.
2005 Annual Art Exhibition, Orangery Gallery, Holland Park, London, UK; Borough Open Exhibition, MP Brila Millennium Gallery, London, UK; Baltikalia, Zizi Gallery, organised by New Realms, Mayfair, London, UK; Exhibition of Gallery’s artists, Traku Gatves Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition “The Orient and the Occident”, Air Gallery, organised by Wabi Art, Mayfair, London, UK; “Inside Annual” Sculpture exhibition at RBS Gallery, London, UK; “ACAVA Open Studios 2005”, Fulham, London, UK; Solo Exhibition, New Realms Gallery, London, UK.
2004 “The Best Work of the Year”, Exhibition at Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Art Exhibition, Kuznetsky Most 20, Moscow, Russia; Art Exhibition “History of Russia in Faces”, Government House of RF, Moscow, Russia; Exhibition of Sculpture “The Small Form”, Kuznetsky Most 20, Moscow, Russia; Art Exhibition 2004 at Orangery Gallery, Holland Park, London, UK; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Traku Gatves Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania; Art Exhibition “One Big Work”, Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture, 9 Worple Way Gallery, Richmond, Surrey, UK; The International Thomas Mann Festival, Exhibition, “Lankos”, Nida, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London, UK; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK; Art Exhibition “ISSUE 8 Winter 04”, The Biscuit Factory Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Art Exhibition “Faces in Time”, Oriel Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2003 Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at State S. Konenkov Museum, Moscow, Russia; Exhibition of Gallery` s artists, Traku Gatves Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania; “Classics and Contemporarity”, the exhibition of animalism, The State Museum of Ch. Darwin, Moscow, Russia.
2002 Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Egles Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Traku Gatves Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Lithuanian Embassy, Baltrusaitis House, Moscow, Russia; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Lithuanian Embassy, London, UK; Solo Exhibition at POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London, UK; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at The Ice House Gallery, organised by Finart, Holland Park, London,UK; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Kaunas DS Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Exhibition “70 years of Moscow Artists Union”, Manege, Moscow, Russia.
2001 Painters, Designers, and Architects Group “Sfinksas” Exhibition at Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Kaunas Artists Exhibition at Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania; The International Salon of Mini Graphic, Corabunary, Romania; The International Exhibition “Mysterium Magnum”, Kaunas DS Gallery, Kaunas – Kedainiai, Lithuania; Exhibition of Portraits at Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania; The International Exhibition “Art Summer”, Tallinn, Estonia.
2000 Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Egles Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Exhibition “Moscow – St. Petersburg 2000”, St. Petersburg Manege, Moscow Manege, Russia; Exhibition “Art Manege 2000”, Moscow, Russia; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at I. Mikuliciutes Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; The 2nd International Baltic Animalistic Sculpture Festival, Tallinn, Estonia.
1999 Painters, Designers, and Architects Group “Sfinksas” Exhibition at Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Exhibition “One Work of Art” at Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Medaliu Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Graphic at Kaunas Public Library, Kaunas, Lithuania; Solo Exhibition of Sculpture at Slenkstis Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Painters, Designers, and Architects Group “Sfinksas” Exhibition at Town Hall Museum, Kedainiai, Lithuania.
1998 Painters, Designers, and Architects Group “Sfinksas” Exhibition at Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.
1997 Painters, Designers, and Architects Group “Sfinksas” Exhibition at Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Kaunas Artists Exhibition at Jurbarkas Community Centre, Jurbarkas, Lithuania.
Work experience
I’ve been working as a private Art Tutor in London, UK since 2004. Over this period I’ve gained a tremendous teaching experience for I’ve already taught more than dozen tutees. In parallel, I continue working as a free lance sculptor; provide creative technical work with bronze sculptures from conception to finished product. Other activities include: set, stage design, storyboarding, painting, iconography, and illustration
1998 – 2004 Sculptor and bronze caster. Responsible for organising the complete creative process including: bronze casting, modelling, and working with metal, wax soldering, finishing, patination and instaliation at Bronze Casting Foundry and Sculpture Studio D. Uspensky, Moscow, Russia
1997 - 1998 Sculptor and bronze caster. Modelling, assisting customers with their purchases, bronze casting, working with metal, wax, forms moulding, finishing, welding, patination, repair and restore at Bronze Casting Foundry and Sculpture Factory Taurida, Klaipeda, Lithuania
1995 – 1997 Sculptor and bronze caster. Modelling, forms moulding, working with wax and metal, patination, repair and restoration, supply at Sidabrine Sala Bronze Casting Foundry and Sculpture Factory, Kaunas, Lithuania
1993 - 1995 Bronze caster. Bronze casting, working with wax, metal and welding at V. Ciuplys AB. Bronze Casting Foundry, Palemonas, Lithuania
