Ineses māja (A House for Ines) is a picture book published by Liels un mazs. Written by architect and poet Gunta Šnipke, the story follows Ines as she visits an architect to have her dream house drawn. However, she soon discovers that the process is far more complicated than she imagined, as she must answer many questions before the architect can begin.

The book was nominated for the Janis Baltvilks Book Prize for Illustrations in 2022 and won the Adwards Prize for Excellence in Print Design in the same year.

It has also been translated into Korean and published by Mirae Media & Books.

Right Place, Right Time is an autobiographical work—a book made up of episodes and conversations from my time living in a shared house while studying in Ghent during the pandemic. It captures a way of life we could never have imagined before 2019 and one that faded from our memories surprisingly quickly.

Illustrations for the Austrian bilingual picture book magazine Papperlapapp No. 16. The magazine publishes illustrated stories for children, with each issue available in nine language combinations.

Mural in the Tallinas Street quarter, Riga.

A sticker album I created for the Latvian Railway Museum. It comes folded with four pages of stickers, allowing you to unleash your imagination and create your dream train!

Zirgā (Riding High) is a picture book written by Inese Zandere and published by Liels un mazs. It captures a child’s imagination while practicing the piano— as they play, a horse emerges from beneath the piano, and the true play of imagination begins.

This illustration was created for the Baltic illustrators' exhibition Running with the Wolves. It was first showcased at the London Book Fair in 2018 and has since traveled across Europe.

This mural in Dobele, Latvia, was part of a campaign for the reformed Latvian education system, Skola2030. The painting symbolizes social-emotional learning, a key aspect of the new system.

Watch the painting process in a stop-motion video here.

Plates that Tell a Story – created in collaboration with graphic designer Madara Krieviņa. This collection of four porcelain plates evokes memories of wanting to finish your breakfast porridge faster to reveal the picture underneath.

Photos by Pēteris Vīksna.

A collection of Julia's bird poems, published by The Emma Press. Full-page patterned illustrations mark different stages in the fictional autobiography of an artist living in England during the 1930s and 40s. Living in the shadow of her famous husband, also an artist, she worked as a wallpaper pattern designer. The concept of the book centers around illustrations as wallpapers.

This linocut poster was created during my residency at the La Linterna printmaking workshop in Cali, Colombia. I lived at the Museo La Tertulia, a modern art museum, and every night a parkour group practiced in front of the museum. Later, I discovered they were refugees from Venezuela, part of a group called Caribe Dance. This poster was inspired by their incredible performances.

This comic illustration was created for the American comics tabloid Smoke Signal, published by Desert Island in Brooklyn, in issue No. 28.

Illustrations for Us of America Magazine, Issue Two, which focused on Minnesota. These illustrations highlight fun facts about the state: Minnesota boasts the longest water border, is the birthplace of masking tape and Milky Way chocolate bars, and has unique laws—it's illegal to hitchhike, drive a muddy car, or eat hamburgers on Sundays. Additionally, Minneapolis has more golfers per capita than any other city in the USA.

Saputrotā putra (Forage for Porridge) is a collection of children's poems by Latvian author Leons Briedis, which I had the pleasure of illustrating. The book features many playful rhymes, including my favorite chapter about a dog’s ball party.

I was honored to receive the International Baltic Sea Region Janis Baltvilks Prize in Children’s Book Art for my illustrations in this book.

Cover illustration and bookplates created for Kuš! Issue #16. It features graphic stories about real villages on planet Earth. http://www.komikss.lv/

Pages from my first illustrated children's book, published by Liels un mazs as part of the BIKIBUKS series—a collection of Latvian poems illustrated by different artists, with each poem in a separate small book.

The poem "Special Names" by Imants Ziedonis is about mosquitoes, squirrels, birds, and the act of giving names and making friends in the forest.

An autobiographical story spanning 20 years of my life in 8 pages. It is a personal narrative about my parents buying and renovating the house where I grew up. It was published in Benji Knewman Magazine, Vol. 5.

Swimming Pool is a short story about a secret revealed in a swimming pool, published in the mini kuš series. You can order it here.

In 2015, the original paintings of Swimming Pool were exhibited at the Kalnciema Iela Gallery in Riga.

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