Aivars Kisnics

Aivars Kisnics

Location: Latvia

I was born on 16th of November, 1955 in Madona, Latvia. Since 1956 I am living in Liepaja. My mother was a dressmaker, but father was a technitian on a ship. After the graduation of the school I did join a Maritime College in Liepaja. In 1975 I did get a profession of a Navigator. I did develop my career further into a captain of the fishing ship on 1980 and the main working area was the Baltic Sea. In 1999 I retired and worked as a captain on a pilot boat in the port of Liepaja in Latvia.
I was interested in art since school time - did participate in drawing as well as photography competitions and was awarded with state-wide certificates. Painting with oil on board I did begin around 2005. Now it's up to you to judge how good my artworks are.


Portfolio:

Abstract expressionism

Aivars Kisnics's oil on canvas paintings are multilayered abstractions featuring abrupt changes in texture, fragmentation and traces of the expressive subliminal impulse. Formerly a ship navigator, Kisnics's special relationship to the sea - where he spent most of his adult professional life - is a focal point of his creative work. The meeting of sea and sky or 'horizon' appears as a reoccurring trope in his works, as well as an emphasis on the interaction between horizontal and vertical lines. Through variegated and fully topographical surfaces Kisnics employs water-like imagery along with a host of abundant associations: life and regeneration; erosion and decay; danger; the unknown; and the spiritual. These works are at once sea and vessel, storm and ship, water and ether. Talking about my way to the world of art, I have to mention 30 years of ship navigator experience that has inspired me to find own interaction with a nature and ultimately has braught me to the process of putting my feelings onto canvas.
The meeting of sea and sky or 'horizon' appears as a reoccurring trope in my works, as well as an emphasis on the interaction between horizontal and vertical lines. Now I am retired and currently reside in Liepaja

672 “672”

Oil on canvas 70x100cm 2013

673 “673”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

674 “674”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

675 “675”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2012

677 “677”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

678 “678”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2012

679 “679”

Oilo on canvas 90x90cm 2013

680 “680”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

681 “681”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

682 “682”

Oil on canvas 90x90sm 2013

683 “683”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

684 “684”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

685 “685 ”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

686 “686”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

687 “687”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

688 “688”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

689 “689”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

690 “690”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

691 “691”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

692 “692”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

693 “693”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

694 “694”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

695 “695”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

696 “696”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

697 “697”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

698 “698”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013

699 “699”

Oil on canvas 90x90cm 2013