Brooklyn Bridge. NYC (2017) Drawing by Lauris Milbrets

In my drawings I picture an urban environment, the variety of which inspires me.
A city is saturated with many contrasting elements, which characterize its peculiarity.
I like to find and fix a chosen environment fragment on a paper, assigning a meaning for a specific place or region. The target is to highlight a significant and to conceal non-essential.
I could compare my drawings with entries in a diary from any trips abroad. It is interesting to observe a daily rhythm of a city.
The most important mean of expression in my drawings is a line.
The uniqueness of the line can be compared to the human handwriting, which for everyone is personal. I like a linear purity. During the drawing process it is very exciting to be a chief of the borders to things, which I wish to include in a composition.
As an instrument for the drawing I have chosen an ink roller ball pen.
Within the research of a city I try to visit central victory and historical monuments, which show the human efforts to make the things eternal. However in such objects there is encoded a pride of a nation, in my drawings I choose to picture simple and ordinary landscapes of an urban environment.

EDUCATION:
Janis Rozentāls Riga Art School 1991-1998
Art Academy of Latvia BFA-2002,MFA-2004

EXHIBITIONS:
Solo shows
2016.11
"The Sign Of The Covenant" , Kuldiga District Museum, Latvia
2015.05
“AM/PM”, Kuldiga Art House, Latvia
2014.05
“First wish” Kuldiga Art House, Latvia
2014.04
“Three walls” gallery “ISTABA”, Riga, Latvia
2012.08
“Summer Salon” vine studio “Kabinett”, Kuldiga, Latvia
2010.11
“Connections” Agija Suna Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2009.07
“Black Box” Agija Suna Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2008.08
“Pearl of the Village” gallery Smukumbode, Kuldiga, Latvia
2008.04
“Skin” Agija Suna Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2004.06
“Gravitation” gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia

• Nationality: LATVIA
• Date of birth : 1979
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Latvian Artists