ABOUT
Vineta Cook is contemporary landscape painter and abstract photographer, with roots of abstract expressionism. Born in northern Lithuania, in the hometown of Jonas Mekas-God father of American avant-garde cinema, she has been dabbling in art and experimenting with different materials since early childhood. At age fifteen she won the silver medallion in a European Union art contest held in Lithuania. Later she finished at Vilnius Pedagogical University, receiving her bachelor degree in Arts and left Lithuania for the United States with her family in 2005.
Vineta has received awards from the European Union, Manhattan Art's International Gallery and in 2008 was entitled "Best Emerging Artist" from the Best of 2007 Art Source in New York. Her photography prints were used on the set of the CW Network TV series, "One Tree Hill". Most recently Vineta's Painting "Tears of the Sun" was chosen to illustrate the poem of the week by Michael Donaghy, at the "Times Literary Supplement".
Vineta Cook is represented by art publisher PI Creative Art in Toronto, Canada, and selections of her work is currently available at Art Pic gallery, North Hollywood, CA. Clients: Warner Bros, Collectors from USA, Lithuania, England.