Sculptor Vera Veisa’s handwriting features supple and vivid forms supplemented by graphical elements. The artist has been equally persuasive both in medium and small scale sculptures and has retained her individual handwriting in both of them. The exhibition shows figurines, bronze and porcelain medals, plaquettes as well as medium scale sculptures.
One of the artist’s most favoured genres is the portrait. Veisa has portrayed Ernest Hemingway, Latvian poet Rainis, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Latvian athlete Dainis Kula and others as well as created a monument to Latvian theatre legend Vera Baluna. The most prominent among her pieces is the plaquette cycle “Dedication to a Bee”, which was awarded with the 3rd prize of the Ministry of Culture of Latvian SSR. The piece reveals not only skillfulness in creating sculptures, but also carries an important message – an urge to think about the virtue of diligence, nature protection and more general ecology issues. The artist has worked with fire clay, stone and bronze as well as the brittle porcelain which has been turned into small scale sculptures of birds, girls in national costumes and children and are very compact, but also supple and expressive.
Vera Veisa (1947) has graduated from the Ceramics Department of Rezekne Secondary School of Applied Art (1966) and Sculpture Department of Zalkalns State Academy of Art of Latvian SSR (1975). She has participated in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad since 1971 and worked in Riga Porcelain Factory in 1966 – 1979, initially in the modelling workshop and later as a sculptor at the art laboratory. In 1980 she participated in the international symposium of medal artists in Hungary.