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Elva Garma ex Bahvalova
Painting is never ending story
Hi, my name is Elva Garma . I come from a small village called Lizums, which is located in one of the Baltic States in Latvia. I painted in my early school years when I was in elementary school. That time my miden name was Bahvalova.
In childhood I took part in small drawing and painting competitions. My drawing teacher was my neighbor, and I often went to show my drawings to her. In my teenage years, I had other passions, and I did not continue until I was 25, when I felt a great desire to paint again.
After a couple of years, I realized that contrasts, abstract landscapes and sometimes textures are what characterize almost every work of my art. Painting is now a big part of my life.
Artist CV
2004 - Visual Art Exhibition "Different World” in Gulbene, Latvia
2005 - Visual Arts Olympiad “H.K.Andersen’s Fairy Tales” Gulbene, Latvia
2005 - Visual Art Exhibition "Different World” in Madona, Latvia
2005 - 3rd place in Visual Arts Olympiad in Gulbene, Latvia
2006 - Visual Art Olympiad Figural composition
2006 - 4th category diploma GIF Animation Film Festival cinema Riga
2006 - Exhibition of visual arts at a local village bookstore in Lizums, Latvia
2018 - 2020 - Private painting lessons at Art Curator studio, Riga, Latvia
2020 - Wall project for company LMT customer center in Riga. Made from reproduction of the Power Meadow painting
2021- Participation in international competition "Inter-art experience: Latvia and the USA 1945-1991"
2021 - Participation in "Jāzepa Pīgožņa Awards" latvian Landscape Painting competition in Riga, Latvia
February - April 2022 - Exhibition at DiaMed clinic, Riga, Latvia
August- September 2022 - Collective physical and digital exhibition “Abstract Duty” at Galeria Azur Madrid, Spain
December - February 2022 - 2023 - Personal exhibition at Slampes Kultūras Pils "Manos prāta stūros", Slampe, Latvija
March - April 2025 - Personal exhibition at "Art RC gallery", Riga, Latvia
My first client purchased painting in 2019. I painted it during the learning process and quickly a client came forward to buy it. That's how it all started.
Art Project LMT
In 2019 I participated in a special project in which a reproduction of my painting "Power meadow" was selected and printed on a large wall in the form of wallpaper for a very well-known company client center of LMT in Riga, Latvia.
Galeria Azur exhibition in Madrid
This was my first experience in a foreign gallery where curator of the Galeria Azur Madrid chose to present my paintings "Hideout", "Different kind of sunset" and "Imprints".
"Slampes Kultūras Pils" exhibition
Art RC Gallery exhibition in Riga
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