Zane Iltnere (1961)

In her works Zane Iltnere manages to successfully combine intriguing, story-telling contents and visual colourfulness by using oil colours and putty-knife.

Those are landscapes and still lives that encompass only a few objects - glasses or some special individual containers/dishes. Usually the landscapes depict beach in an evening light or solitary park. The emphasis is placed on colour and atmosphere.

Artist's created romantically fragile compositions are like visions that let audience dive into an imaginary world/dream world. That is intensified by picture's colour scheme - different tunes of blue, cool grey and red.

The surfaces of paintings are glazed/coated with varnish. Sometimes before glazing some of the top colour have been removed uncovering the lower layer that is the contra colour to the top one, creating a transparent effect.

                                                                                                                                   Ilze Žeivate, 2009