Colors as a Story Tomas Rimkus: Interpretations of the Inner and Strategic World of Colors, Forms the painter

Colors as a StoryTomas Rimkus: Interpretations of the Inner and Strategic World of Colors, Forms Painter Tomas Rimkus lives and works in Kaunas, Lithuania. He began his creative path seven years ago in search of better creative results. He painted paintings of various formats with acrylic paints. The author compares his work with states of spiritual search. The author Tomas Rimkus did not study painting specifically anywhere, he studied music technology at Kaunas University of Technology. The author's creative philosophy is associated with deep thoughts and an important idea is that painting helps not only to achieve better results, but also to overcome pain. Tomas Rimkus works as a sound operator at the Kaunas National Drama Theatre. In his free time, the painter not only paints paintings, but also writes poetry, and in the near future he plans to publish his first book . Religious, philosophical, time and existential themes are of great importance in the author's work. All of the author's paintings are born from deep imagination and dreams. It's like when one piece of work consists of separate parts. Very intriguing are: “Mermaid’s Dream”, “Holy Spirit”, A Moment”.Colour is never just a surface. It pulsates, speaks, sometimes whispers, and sometimes screams so loudly that it drowns out form, line and even silence itself. In Tomas Rimkus’ work, colour becomes not a decoration, but a narrative structure – an independent language with which he constructs the geography of his inner world.T. Rimkus does not rely solely on form. In his works, it seems to dissolve in colour fields, allowing itself to be guided rather than led. This is a conscious choice – to abandon the strict discipline of contour and let colour become a conductor of emotion. In this way, the artist creates not objects but states. The viewer does not observe here, but immerses himself.The dynamics of his relationship with contrast are particularly striking in T. Rimkus work. Cold blues collide with burning oranges, earth tones suddenly burst with intense red. These collisions are not accidental – they remind us of inner conflicts, peculiar psychological landscapes in which peace and tension exist simultaneously. Color here becomes not only an expression of emotion, but also its conflict.Interestingly, in Rimkus's works, color often acts as a carrier of memory. It is not direct, it is not "realistic". These are more the colors of memories - slightly faded, sometimes too bright, sometimes unexpectedly changed. Such a color language allows us to talk about time not as a linear process, but as a layered experience in creating various themes and artistic interpretations of the inner, artistic and strategic world.The work of the painter Tomas Rimkus maneuvers between tradition and modernity. Attention is paid to mood and inner state. Attention is paid to symbols and details.Tomas Rimkus is not one of the most widely canonized or most frequently mentioned names in the history of Lithuanian art, therefore his work cannot be attributed or compared to other authors, because it is individual. However, when looking at the context of contemporary Lithuanian painting, it is possible to distinguish several features that are often associated with this type of author (and are likely characteristic of Rimkus' work, if we refer to the general context. Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė