Ara Radvilė

Ara Radvilė (Radvilė Juozapaitytė, b. 1995) is a Lithuanian painter based in Vilnius. Her work is characterized by clear, simplified forms, a restrained color structure, and a calm, concentrated visual language. After completing her Master’s degree in Scenography at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2020, the artist has continued to pursue clarity and simplicity in her practice.

In Ara Radvilė’s painting, a contemporary form of primitivism is strongly present—not as a return to naivety, but as a deliberate choice to remove excess. Line, volume, and surface become the primary tools she uses to shape figures and their emotional states.

Her central theme is the female figure. For Ara Radvilė, the woman is not an individual character or portrait. She approaches her as a primordial form—a sign of beginnings, the point from which worlds emerge. In her work, the woman becomes a symbol of continuity and fire, a source from which creation can start. It is more of a structural essence than a body, more an origin than an image— a form that holds and carries the weight of the painting.

Ara Radvilė uses simple symbols—flowers, plants, light marks, body fragments. These motifs function as a quiet resistance to noise and rapid consumption in art. A flower here is not decoration but a reminder that sensitivity and fragility can be a firm response to the harshness of the world.

She works slowly and intuitively, trusting the material itself. Each painting is developed as a concrete object, stripped of unnecessary detail or aesthetic excess. This lends her work a tangible, grounded, and clear tone.

Ara Radvilė is currently an artist-in-residence at the Užupis Art Incubator and actively participates in exhibitions and creative projects in Lithuania.