Artist CV
2004 - Visual Art Exhibition "Different World” in Gulbene, Latvia
2005 - Visual Arts Olympiad “H.K.Andersen’s Fairy Tales” Gulbene, Latvia
2005 - Visual Art Exhibition "Different World” in Madona, Latvia
2005 - 3rd place in Visual Arts Olympiad in Gulbene, Latvia
2006 - Visual Art Olympiad Figural composition
2006 - 4th category diploma GIF Animation Film Festival cinema Riga
2006 - Exhibition of visual arts at a local village bookstore in Lizums, Latvia
2018 - 2020 - Private painting lessons at Art Curator studio, Riga, Latvia
2020 - Wallpaper project for the wall of the LMT customer center from the photo of the Power Meadow painting
2021- International competition "Inter-art experience: Latvia and the USA 1945-1991"
2021 -"Jāzepa Pīgožņa Awards" latvian Landscape Painting competition in Riga, Latvia
2022 - Collective psychical exhibition at DiaMed clinic, Riga, Latvia
2022 - Collective physical and digital exhibition “Abstract Duty” at Galeria Azur Madrid, Spain
2022 - 2023 Solo exhibition at Slampes " Kultūras pils" Tukuma region, Latvia
Painting is never ending story
Hi, my name is Elva Garma . I come from a small village called Lizums, which is located in one of the Baltic States in Latvia. I painted in my early school years when I was in elementary school. That time my miden name was Bahvalova, so I started to sign the paintings by this name and I intend to continue with it in the future , since it is my original family name after all.
In childhood I took part in small drawing and painting competitions. My drawing teacher was my neighbor, and I often went to show my drawings to her. In my teenage years, I had other passions, and I did not continue until I was 25, when I felt a great desire to paint again.
After a couple of years, I realized that contrasts, abstract landscapes and sometimes textures are what characterize almost every work of my art. Painting is now a big part of my life.