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.
Her 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.
About her practice
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.
Her background in graphic design, and a long-standing interest in modernism, architecture and the Bauhaus, shows up naturally in the work. But making art has also become a way of loosening that design logic, letting intuition, material and small imperfections have their say too. She's drawn to simplicity, but doesn't think simple has to mean quiet or empty. What interests her is how much can happen with relatively little.
"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."
