Vytautas Laisonas, a Lithuanian painter, lives and works in Biržai, a city in northern Lithuania. His artwork is already beautifying the homes and collections in Japan, USA, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, etc…Vytautas kindly took the time to share his thoughts, ideas, and artwork with me. I am very happy to share them with you. Enjoy!

“Creativity is the basis of self-expression. Why are some people supposedly more creative than others, and why can’t others open themselves up enough to be able to express who they are? Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing. When someone creates something: a painting, a poem, a photograph, the creativity comes from an idea, from a feeling, from emotion, or from a combination of ideas, feelings and emotions that are somehow ‘reborn’ from all our experiences and perspectives….”