Biography
Ilze LaizÄne (1966) graduated from three departments of the Art Academy of Latvia. In 2009 she received a Bachelorās degree in Glass Art, and in 2011 a Master's degree in Painting (Figurative Painting Master Workshop of Normunds BrasliÅÅ”, Kristaps ZariÅÅ” and Juris JurjÄns). In 2014, she graduated from the Master Workshop of Guntars SietiÅÅ” at the Graphic Arts Department with one more Masterās degree. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia. Ilze LaizÄne is actively involved in art life ā she regularly organizes solo exhibitions in Latvia and participates in art fairs in Germany, Italy, and Belgium. She has also worked as a curator and organized several international and local projects. She has participated in international art competitions and has received recognition. Lives and works in Riga, Latvia.
Ilze LaizÄne gets her emotional realization in her work ā painting. She goes to the studio and paints almost every day. Ilze says: āIdeas, inspiration, feelings have to be realized and put on canvas immediately.ā
Her works are in private collections in Latvia, the USA, Germany, China, and Spain.
Artistic style description
She is inspired by the works of the great Masters, especially the Renaissance period. The monumentality of figurative painting, the fineness of line and form, combined with a bright color palette and the lightness of oil technique, characterize the artist's style. Ilze LaizÄneās painting is realism combined with a dream-like ethereal atmosphere. Each painting is a poetic and symbolically figurative composition that contains a true story or a mystery. The artist expresses her emotions and unconscious nature impulses, which are transformed on the canvas into surreal and mythological images and nuanced details. Not only the fine forms of nature come through Ilze LaizÄneās paintings, but also female beauty, a mysterious and multifaceted individuality and immeasurable power.
Interesting facts
Ilze LaizÄne was 39 when she entered the Art Academy of Latvia. Alongside her career as an artist, she has curated and organized a solo exhibition of the painter and Art Academy of Latvia professor Normunds BrasliÅÅ” at the JÅ«rmala City Museum. Together with Roberts Koļcovs and Aivars VÄ«lipsons, she curated the Latvian drawing exhibition āPriežsulas spÄksā.
Ilze LaizÄne is the first Latvian artist to have her drawings and wishes inscribed in the great Hanseatic City Friendship Book.
The painting āSeasideā is among the tickets issued in the 12th series of the Latvian Lotto Centenary Lottery. In 2021, the sensual work "Love Stone" graced the cover of the catalogue of the ā50 Shades of Redā exhibition-competition held at King House Gallery in London and was one of the three best works.
Ilze LaizÄne expresses her feminine inner queen by making pearl wreaths. She has also realized her creative potential in interior design, completely furnishing the small guest house she owns in the Vidzeme countryside. It is a place where one can feel the power of the land and get inspiration.
