Madara Neikena

Madara Neikena (1988)

Madara Neikena belongs to the new generation of Latvian painters. She is one of the few artists who continue painting a la prima in the plain air. Her attention is attracted to marine and seaside - the interaction of colour and light, which young artist converts into a vague landscape with a mediative nature and artistic creation and perception level. Madaras Neikena’s works are characterized by the lightness of colour and landscape, minimalism and laconic pictorial expression, where the composition of the paintings and the emotional message are sometimes drawn with just a few lines.

Madara Neikena (1988) graduated from the Painting Department at the Art Academy of Latvia (2015). In 2014, she received “SEB Scholarship in Painting” (Latvia) and “Premio Marina di Ravenna 2014” (Italy). Since 2010, she has participated in several group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad and has organized 8 solo exhibitions. The paintings of Madara Neikena are in the ROCHE Latvija Art Collection (Riga, Latvia). Madara Neikena lives and works in Riga, Latvia.