PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK Mārtiņš Blanks is a Latvian designer, set designer, and creative professional who works in various fields of design and art. His creative work spans fashion, visual communication, film, and stage design. Mārtiņš Blanks is a graduate of the Riga Secondary School of Design and Art and the Art Academy of Latvia. Together with his wife, Linda Blanka, Mārtiņš founded the fashion brand BlankBlank. Their work is based on conceptual fashion design, original fab

PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK Ritums Ivanovs (born October 17, 1968, in Cēsis) is one of the best-known Latvian contemporary painters, who has also gained international recognition. He works primarily in painting, focusing particularly on portraits, faces, and emotions. The artist’s works are distinguished by his own unique cross-hatching technique, which combines elements of Pop Art, photorealism, and Op Art. His paintings often depict people whose faces and gazes reveal various em