Valdas Antanas Gurskis

The images in Valdas Antanas Gurskis’ painting balance between graphic and pictorial, between form and space, between earth and sky. His landscapes reflect not only the essential principles of world vision, a dynamic gaze, sensitive to the nuances of light and color change, but also an active creative position. The traditional motifs of the Lithuanian landscape, placed in the traditional frames of the language of genres, stylistically balance between monumentality and camaraderie, between the boundaries of realism, impressionism and the language of expressionism.  The origins of the painter’s work are related to traditions, positions of the lyrical landscape, and creations of his teachers Česlovas Kontrimas, Algirdas Petrulis, Irena Trečiokaitė-Žebenkienė, Vladas Eidukevičius, Antanas Martinaitis and others. Being sensitive to the moods of nature, Gurskis has become a kind of chronicler of the changing seasons, Lithuanian towns and villages, which are distinguished by the changing light. The painter expresses the poetic moods of nature and worldview in different periods of life and work, preserving the essential unchanging aspects of artistic vision.Art critic   Nijolė Nevcesauskiene