Eļļas glezna uz audekla, 100 x 70 cm. Gleznota 2025.

In the beginning, the Ode to War was created as a part of the artist’s natural artistic expression, where he plays with combining painting styles of history with his special paint style while exploring the relationships of nature and animals (including humans) place in it. 

However, when the painting revealed its grandeur, it embodied a different message – a message serving as a commentary on the Russian war in Ukraine. Specifically highlighting the clash between the total devastation faced by many Ukrainians, saving people from burning rubble and hoping that everything that gets destroyed once will be rebuilt and the need for the general population to keep calm and continue to play their lives piano’s. 

Painting has been featured in the travelling exhibition “Fragments of Imagination” parts in:

• Ogre Kulturas Centrs (2026 March – April)
• Stāmerienas castle (2026 May – autumn)