GAIA PILENS 

Gaia Pilens is Latvian born artist based in Austria. 

Self taught artist, since 2013 she has worked in various techniques (textile, graphic, ink) , always challenging herself with different surfaces as a background of her work.

“I am always in the process of creating, there is no “ready” for me. Art is something very personal, very intimate and sensory. My focus is on the female and male body I want to put to perfection in my work, though I believe that the most beautiful bodies in the world are far from complete or perfect. It is the line of the pencil that has to express the motion, the curve, the feeling. My art speaks a language that is raw and true. 

Today everything is about producing, selling, branding —  a mass culture, but I am not in that boat. I honestly believe that art gets better with years, even on a paper it looks better with time. It is like good wine. You have to put it in the cellar to rest. Meanwhile, I am honoured and happy to work for My Wine Design art collection SEASON I, which is quite symbolic I must say. And I believe it will gain some emotional patina within years. So have fun, drink wine and make love in front of it.” 

Wine art prints for the SEASON I have two dimensions and moods —  one is made in the feeling of contemporary wine art posters, the other — very symbolic artwork, done as a cutout at the beginning, put on a silk screen and reflecting on mythology and wine. It is the amphora, the wine and water, and the female body as a symbol of fertility.