Portfolio — Algis Skara | 47 Contemporary Abstract Paintings (2022–2025)

About the artist

Algis Skara is a contemporary abstract painter whose work explores the intersection of memory, landscape, and abstraction. Born in 1982, he established his studio practice in the quiet part of Riga, Latvia in 2023.

Skara approaches painting as a journey through an unseen maze. Each brushstroke is a step forward, each color a choice that brings him closer to something hidden. Symbols half-remembered, creatures almost imagined, voices muffled by time or paint.

His work lives between abstraction, chaos, and clarity. Skara creates visual mini-universes — each painting a maze with more than one exit.

Medium & technique

• Acrylic on cotton and linen canvas
• Spray paint
• Oil sticks
• Mixed media

Series

Cosmic Moods

Paintings that explore deep space, atmosphere, and the emotional weather of the cosmos.

Dream Logic

Work rooted in the logic of dreams — where symbols and creatures follow their own internal grammar.

Shifting Identities

Paintings about the self as a moving target — faces, figures, and gestures in flux.

Full catalogue (47 works, 2022–2025)

2025

• Litany of the Red Spirits — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2025. The instant before a resurrection.
• Dreams Rot in Silence — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2025. This is a forest of the forgotten thoughts.
• Symposium of Silliness — Mixed media, 141 × 101 cm, 2025. Joy, sarcasm, frustration, and love.
• Synaptic Drip — Mixed media, 141 × 88 cm, 2025. The cloud smiled.
• The Exit Is Not Always Light — Acrylic on canvas, 114 × 114 cm, 2025. Clarity is not yet reached, but the pressure of revelation is imminent.
• Blue Has a Memory — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2025. It’s as if we are watching the inside of someone’s mind.
• Cosmic Gossips — Mixed media, 228 × 169 cm, 2025. New makeup trends born not from ads, but from pure, interstellar shade. (diptych, 2 × 114 × 169 cm)
• The Red Is Not Always Red — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2025. Memory that’s been rewritten too many times, each time more desperate to forget, or preserve.

2024

• Can We Be Frien — Acrylic on canvas, 228 × 141 cm, 2024. Under a sky that never quite wakes, two beings approach one another across a threshold neither of them remembers crossing. One is owl-like, made of knowledge and silence. The other — cat-formed, curious, alert, jittery with instinct. Their
• Sun Keeps the Secret — Acrylic on canvas, 90 × 200 cm, 2024. And everything that was said in silence… stayed.
• A Memory Wearing Jewelry — Acrylic on canvas, 210 × 100 cm, 2024. She wasn’t trying to be noticed.
• The Crowd I Bring With Me — Acrylic on canvas, 205 × 205 cm, 2024. It’s a painting about closeness.
• Echoes of a Shared Silence — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 88 cm, 2024. Silence is not absence.
• Blue Witness — Mixed media, 150 × 115 cm, 2024. There was once a fish, that looked like a bird, born with a voice that sounded like memory.
• Chamber of Becoming — Mixed media, 150 × 115 cm, 2024. When the body remembered something it had never been told.
• Whispers in Centrifuge — Acrylic on canvas, 160 × 160 cm, 2024. It’s as though we’re inside the mind at the exact second a breakthrough happens.
• Fault Line of Dreams — Acrylic on canvas, 200 × 80 cm, 2024. The reflection reveals not what is, but what once was.
• Living on the Planet Earth — Mixed media, 141 × 141 cm, 2024. We share one …
• Eyewitness to the Origin — Mixed media, 150 × 115 cm, 2024. It wasn’t born. It was noticed. And that made all the difference.

2023

• Glowwalker — Oil on canvas, 228 × 141 cm, 2023. In the dark hours between yesterday and now.
• The Floor Remembers the Dance — Mixed media, 228 × 141 cm, 2023. Imagine walking into a room where everyone who ever passed through left a small drawing on the wall.
• Almost Everything — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 141 cm, 2023. And just when it all starts to make sense, you blink and it’s gone.
• Under the Raspberry Sun — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 141 cm, 2023. The joy is sincere. And nobody ever asks why.
• He Only Talks to Tomatoes — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 141 cm, 2023. Playful and slightly unsettling.
• Free at last — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 114 cm, 2023. The birds. They do not fly — they hang. The cage. Empty, or perhaps too full of memory to hold anything more. (collab work with @mabrunart)
• Potatoff — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 88 cm, 2023. He was a potato. Maybe not in name, but in spirit. (collab work with @mabrunart)
• The Birth of the Second Sun — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 88 cm, 2023. Spiritual ignition.
• Cave of the Laughing Beasts — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2023. Smile. And slowly retreat.
• Glossolalia — Mixed media, 88 × 88 cm, 2023. Maybe it’s: “Do you understand me?” Or maybe it’s just: “Are you still there?”
• Cartoon Breakdown No.7 — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 141 cm, 2023. This creature doesn’t cry. Hoping someone out there is watching.
• Sombrero boys — Mixed media, 114 × 114 cm, 2023. The wall has split in two.
• In the Beginning — Mixed media, 228 × 141 cm, 2023. Everyone who passed by it saw something different, but felt the same pull in their chest.
• Transmissions in Three Parts — Acrylic on canvas, 123 × 141 cm, 2023. More emotional than readable, more felt than seen. (triptych, 3 × 41 × 141 cm)
• Midnight Visitors — Acrylic on canvas, 114 × 141 cm, 2023. Subconscious during a moment of weird companionship.
• The Dreamer and the Witness — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 88 cm, 2023. In the deep pocket of night a dreamer rests on a hill of whispering stones.

2022

• City Without Language — Acrylic on canvas, 70 × 114 cm, 2022. This painting captures a moment where memory and ruin overlap. It isn’t about what was built, but about what refuses to disappear.
• Mother of Movement — Acrylic on canvas, 70 × 114 cm, 2022. Even the smallest wings can redraw the air.
• Mornings That Never End — Acrylic on canvas, 65 × 100 cm, 2022. There is no urgency here — only the slow, swirling decision.
• Frog in the Shower — Acrylic on canvas, 82 × 114 cm, 2022. Where do old thoughts go when you’re done with them?
• What Time Does to Us — Acrylic on canvas, 228 × 141 cm, 2022. This is not a story of decline, but of integration, where the self becomes less defined, but perhaps more whole.
• Softly Out of View — Acrylic on canvas, 72 × 100 cm, 2022. It all just… exists, like the feeling you get when you remember a place but not the reason why it mattered.
• Infinite Two — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 141 cm, 2022. Each swirl and scribble is a hand raised to speak.
• The Silence Between Notes — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2022. The instant just before sleep takes over.
• City of Static — Acrylic on canvas, 141 × 141 cm, 2022. It is not peaceful. But it is alive.
• Extinguish The Ocean — Acrylic on canvas, 100 × 100 cm, 2022. A moment, just before a wave crashes into fire, where neither knows if it will survive the other.
• It could be — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2022. Nothing in this world is still, not even the things we believe are solid.
• Ink is everything — Acrylic on canvas, 88 × 141 cm, 2022. They say color surrounds us, like weather — changing, fleeting, often unnoticed. It arrives softly, maybe it’s a sentence spoken too gently to forget, or the way someone looked at you when they thought you weren’t looking. And that moment d

Contact & studio

Algis Skara · Riga, Latvia · [email protected] · Instagram @outlaw

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