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Becoming an artist wasn’t a leap, it was a slow return to something that never really left.

Even while I worked in fast-paced business roles, even when art was squeezed into late evenings or weekends, it stayed with me - sometimes quiet, sometimes insistent. Over time, it grew into something I could no longer ignore.

Early 2024, I made the decision to step away from the business world and focus fully on my art practice. It wasn’t a rushed leap, more like a long-overdue shift into a space that had been calling for years. The time had come to give painting the room it needed to grow and to follow that energy with purpose.

Originally from Lithuania, I moved to Ireland over two decades ago and never left. I came for a year, fell in love with the place and somehow twenty years passed.

For over 15 years, I worked in the fast-paced world of digital and creative agencies leading projects, clients and teams. But painting never left me. It waited quietly, resurfacing between deadlines, late at night or on weekends when something inside needed to be expressed.

Energy, Remembered

Each canvas is an echo of a moment - not a scene, but a frequency. I think of my paintings as memory maps of emotion, where colour becomes the trace of something once felt. They remind me that energy never disappears, it only changes form.

The Human Signal

My work explores the human signal - the pulse that remains when everything else turns digital. Through layers of pigment and intuition, I translate emotion into something tangible: a record of what it feels like to be alive right now.

My creative path began in Vilnius, where I trained in graphic design and worked as a designer before life took me to Dublin. I also studied academic drawing for several years, with a strong foundation in classical technique and life drawing skills that still shape my work today.

My work explores the human signal - the energy, memory, and emotion we carry through life. Whether I’m painting abstract forms or expressive portraits, I’m drawn to the tension between stillness and movement. Each piece begins with intuition and is built through layers of colour, gesture and feeling.

I believe art can hold a frequency, a resonance that stays in a space long after the brush is down. That’s what I aim to create: paintings that are alive with presence, that feel like something you’ve known before but can’t quite explain, remember.

I now work from my Dublin studio, creating original large scale artworks and limited edition fine art prints for collectors, interior designers and spaces that value emotional connection. My paintings have been exhibited at Art Source Dublin, acquired by the Office of Public Works for the Irish State Art Heritage Collection and recognised by the Visual Arts Open in the UK, Jackson's Art Prize and Luxembourg Art Prize.

There’s something about this creative current I’m following and I trust it knows where to go next.

- Ruta -