Playground: Ruta Vaketaite
Ruta Vaketaite
Ruta Vaketaite is a Lithuanian visual artist currently based in Brighton, UK. Graduated from London College of Communication, UAL, Ruta continues to experiment with both traditional and digital illustration, painting, printmaking and interactive art installation.
Ruta’s current works explore the concept of playfulness and freedom in this currently restricted world. Inspired by her daily observations, nature and psychology, she created these paintings as a glimpse of playfulness you can achieve when you’re allowing yourself to be completely free.
Her work process is organic and spontaneous. Painting shapes one after another and adding them like collage, creating new textures and forms by blending and overlaying the pieces together, her paintings are fulfilled with playfulness and ease and it conceptualises the creative process itself through different levels of abstractionism.
Using various objects as tools for mark making, such as card, textured fabric, sponge or roller, these paintings have depth and dynamic just like our daily experiences itself.