RIMA LEIPUVIENĖ

Rima Leipuvienė is a ceramicist by inner vocation. Having acquired artistic rudiments in the pottery studio of Gvidas Raudonis, Rima has a natural gift, which sculptors call thinking in material, i.e. the feeling of the mobility of the ceramic mass, the ability to control it during the creative process, to give it the desired shape, to feel when it is necessary to stop. <…>

Rima Leipuvienė’s name is little known to a wider circle of fans, but she boldly broke into the art world with her first personal exhibition, declaring her intentions to establish herself in it. What is the secret of her success? Growing up in a non-academic environment may have made it difficult to move towards the goal, but at the same time it stopped the artist from stereotypes, stereotypes typical of contemporary art, including a visual effect or plot narrative alien to the author. Through the work came experience and understanding that ceramic technology has inexhaustible possibilities of expression, that each ceramicist is strong with individual discoveries. <…>