artist background

miglė lekavičiūtė is a lithuanian-born painter based in rome, whose work is inseparable from a life spent searching for a place to belong. raised in london from the age of nine, she grew up between two cultures without feeling entirely claimed by either, finding in art, early on, the one space that required nothing from her but attention.

formally trained in fine art, photography and textiles, she chose at eighteen to study art history instead, convinced, as many artists are at their most vulnerable, that making work was something other people did. that conviction cost her a decade. she spent her twenties in rome, travelling, ending up inside a corporate world that quietly drained everything it touched. when she finally stopped, painting came back not as a plan but as an instinct. the thing her hands remembered when everything else had been stripped away.

her work explores nature, identity and the primitive sense of belonging that exists beneath language, beneath biography, beneath the question of where you're from. she works from rome, where she has lived, left, and always returned.

my paintings begin somewhere before language. in the part of us that is still animal, still rooted, still connected to the earth in a way that years of living indoors and thinking too much can make you forget.

i paint nature not as landscape but as mirror. a place to look for what has been buried. through my work i am searching for three things i spent a long time losing: my primitive instincts, my feminine energy, and my inner child. the part of me that moves through the world without asking permission. the part that finds beauty without needing a reason. the part that was always there, waiting patiently beneath every sensible decision i ever made.

my process is intuitive and physical. i follow the painting rather than lead it. the forms are organic, drawn from nature but then repeated, layered, searched through. as if the rhythm of making might lead somewhere the thinking mind can't reach. the colors are nature's but brighter, more playful than the earth itself. the way a child sees a forest before they learn to be afraid of it.