Inspiration is everywhere

I grew up in Latvia, by wild white beaches and a sea that never behaves. I still go back, just to stand in that water and bring the colours home with me.

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Now I find it in the mountains outside my studio in Voss, Norway. In a river that never moves the same way twice. In snow that comes early and stays too long.

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Weather changing at midday. A river pushing through rock. These are the things I keep painting, not because I can explain them, but because they hold something worth pausing for.

I work in oil, layer over layer, until something true comes through. It is how I slow down enough to listen, to myself, to the mountain, to whatever is moving in.

I build the layers up, then let parts of them go, the way snow covers a landscape and melts back to show what was underneath. Nature marks the land. It marks us too. Listening closely to that is where the work comes from.

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Sanita Balode

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