Jana Brike

Jana Brike was born in the year 1980 in Riga, Latvia.

She studied academical painting at the Art Academy of Latvia and received an M.A. degree in the year 2005.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in professional venues since 1996 while she was still a young teenager, and since then she has had 15 solo exhibitions and more than 100 other projects and group exhibitions all over the world.

Her main interest is visual art with a strong narrative and depiction of a figure, mostly using the traditional medium of oil painting on canvas. She has also explored other mediums like drawing, animation, mixed media sculpture, installation and digital art.

The main focus of Jana Brike’s art is the internal space and state of a human soul – dreams, longing, love, pain, the vast range of emotions that the human condition offers and the transcendence of them all, the growing up and self-discovery. Her work is her poetic visual auto-biography.