I am not lost, only hiding
Shyness. Gentle self-preservation.
Emotion: Vulnerability . Resilience . Silence
37 x 25 cm · Jan 2025
Choose by feeling.
The paintings are organised by what they hold, not only by what they show.
All paintings.
Original emotional paintings by Latvian artist Artis Berkmanis — each one unique, and each named after a feeling: courage, longing, solitude, a new beginning. Some are still available; others already live in private collections, and their pages stay here so you can follow the whole story.
Filter by emotion, size, series or year, and open any painting to read the story behind it. Many of the works are also available as canvas prints, printed to order.
The small fire in the great silence.
Solitude as a signal. Passion.
Emotion: Solitude . Hope . Longing . Silence . Intimacy
18 x 24 cm · Apr 2021
Where the sun becomes a beast.
Noble solitude. Patience.
Emotion: Solitude . Freedom . Danger
35 x 27 cm · Jan 2020
Intimacy?
Silence after closeness.
Emotion: Intimacy . Solitude . Memory . Silence
40 x 20 cm · Feb 2021
You suffocated me. You hit me. But my heart still beats.
About what could not be broken.
Emotion: Resilience . Energy . Courage . Hope . Survival
40 x 30 cm · Sep 2024
Not every leaving is a loss.
Elegant solitude after the storm.
Emotion: Solitude . Resilience . Tenderness
35 x 28 cm · Sep 2024
Night settled on the flowers.
Beauty is deceptive.
Emotion: Danger . Silence . Tenderness
40 x 50 cm · Dec 2019
Do not mistake silence for surrender!
Untamed dignity.
Emotion: Freedom . Resilience . Boundary . Danger
15 x 15 cm · Jan 2025
Hope that looked like an explosion
Hope does not always arrive quietly.
Emotion: Hope . Transformation . Energy . Freedom . Courage
15 x 15 cm · Sep 2024
Where peace meets noise.
Two worlds within one horizon.
Emotion: Boundary . Chaos . Peace . Contrast . Silence
40 x 30 cm · Feb 2023
Don’t ask what about.
I’m smiling. Don’t ask why.
Emotion: Love . Intimacy . Joy . Mystery . Tenderness
18 x 24 cm · Jun 2025
Not all sails lead away...
An illusion of leaving, change, movement, but you cannot escape yourself.
Emotion: Longing . Solitude . Memory
40 x 50 cm · Jan 2020
No one said it's not allowed.
Quiet hope. Courage. Daring.
Emotion: Hope . Courage . Vulnerability . Resilience
35 x 27 cm · Feb 2020
The flower that became a catastrophe.
When blooming gets a little out of hand.
Emotion: Chaos . Transformation . Freedom . Resilience . Energy
40 x 30 cm · Mar 2021
Everything was already burning, but I kept blooming.
Painful persistence.
Emotion: Grief . Resilience . Survival . Transformation
15 x 20 cm · Feb 2025
I am not as small as I look.
Small defiance in great darkness. Naive courage.
Emotion: Courage . Vulnerability . Resilience
10 x 10 cm · Mar 2025
Don’t move! It’s blooming…
Quietly savoured joy of life.
Emotion: Intimacy . Joy . Beauty . Mystery . Energy . Silence
18 x 24 cm · Mar 2021
They are not opposites, they are a pair.
Freedom. Harmony in difference.
Emotion: Tenderness . Freedom
11 · May 2023
Do not cross the boundary, even if you cannot see it
Restrained wildness. Respect. Reverence.
Emotion: Danger . Boundary . Freedom
35 x 27 cm · Jun 2020
Even the small build the world
Industriousness. Hope. Persistence.
Emotion: Hope . Resilience . Solitude
27 x 22 cm · Jan 2021
I am not only what you see
Self-awareness. Sensuality. Intimacy.
Emotion: Intimacy . Love . Boundary
10 x 20 cm · Jan 2026
