Mahlstedt Gallery | Aurika Piliponiene

Aurika Piliponiene is a painter who has worked as a professional artist for over 25 years. She has a Master’s degree from Vilnius Academy of Arts and lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Aurika’s paintings are full of fantastic and symbolic themes. Most common of which are mythical creatures - angels, birds, boat and sailing narratives, symbolizing the journey through life and many detailed and complicated floral motives. The technique she uses is tempera painting. Tempera - paint, is made using color pigment and binding substance (egg yolk and water) it is one of the oldest painting techniques that was widely used by Renaissances painters.