Simona Puidokaite
Simona Puidokaite paints with acrylic, but she doesn't stop there. Across raw linen, she stitches hundreds of strands of wool yarn by hand, letting a soft material carry as much visual weight as a bold painted shape. The result sits somewhere between painting and textile: precise from across the room, full of texture the closer you get.
Her forms lean geometric with a mid-century modern feel but look for long enough and the tension underneath starts to show. Order that leaves room for interruption. Calm that took hours of slow, repetitive, physical work to make. That's the pull of this collection: pieces that look simple until you get close enough to feel otherwise.
Simona Puidokaite's geometric abstract paintings combine acrylic paint with hand-stitched wool yarn on raw linen, a mixed-media approach that gives her work a tactile, textile quality you don't often find in contemporary abstract art. Trained originally in graphic design, she brings a modernist eye for proportion and negative space to every composition, then interrupts that precision with something more human: hours of hand-stitched yarn work that leaves visible texture and small imperfections across the linen's surface.
The pieces explore contradictions most collectors will recognise from their own lives. Structure meets softness. Discipline meets spontaneity. A composition that reads as calm and controlled from across the room reveals its complexity - raised lines of yarn, the visible weave of raw linen, the physical effort behind a seemingly simple shape - the closer you get. This is original abstract art that rewards a second look, and a third.
With a palette running from muted olive and powdery blue to bursts of acid green, these geometric yarn paintings suit collectors drawn to modernist and mid-century influences who want more depth than a flat canvas gives you. Each piece is either left unframed on stretcher bars or set in a light wood floater frame, ready to hang.
Composition with Yarn II
About the artist
Simona Puidokaite grew up in Lithuania and now lives and works in London, though her route into painting wasn't a straight line. She trained first in graphic design and spent years in the creative industries before developing an independent art practice - one that pulls together a lifelong love of modernism, architecture, colour and material.
That grounding shows. Her geometric abstract paintings have the confident proportion of someone who has spent years thinking about layout and negative space. But work with acrylic, raw linen, paper and hand-stitched wool yarn, and something softer and less predictable creeps in too — small imperfections that a purely design-led practice wouldn't allow.
Simona's work has shown at The Other Art Fair London, Sussex Art Fair, with ArtCan and multiple galleries, and through London Open Studios. In 2025, she was selected for Green & Stone's Summer Exhibition. Her paintings now sit in private collections across the UK, Europe, the US and Asia - proof that this particular mix of discipline and softness resonates well beyond London.
Artistic Practice
"I’m drawn to simplicity, but I don’t think simple has to mean quiet or empty. I’m interested in how much can happen with relatively little."
Simona is drawn to what happens when opposite things meet - structure and softness, logic and intuition, stillness and movement. She usually starts with simple geometric forms: circles, squares, blocks of colour, then spends a long time on proportion and placement, nudging things around until a composition feels balanced. But she's wary of getting that balance too perfect. She likes to leave room for something unexpected - a shape that interrupts another, a detail that shifts the whole piece, the texture of raw linen, or a length of yarn that turns a clean geometric form suddenly physical.
