I DON’T NEED INSPIRATION
Pēteris Bankovskis
After finishing the Riga Secondary School of Applied Art in 1965, Henrihs Vorkals went on to graduate from the Textiles Department of the Latvian Academy of Art in 1972. He has taken part in exhibitions since 1969 and became a member of the Artists' Union in 1975. He is possibly Latvia's greatest watercolourist. His art is a blend of constructive, geometric thinking, possibly from his textile studies, with an apparent sense of nature that comes from the soul. He has a characteristically open mind, possibly from the Pop Art days, towards the world of objects (including the works of others), which we could (but shouldn't) confuse with the so-called unfortunate habit of quotation attributed to the postmodernists. We shouldn't forget that art has not managed without quotation in any century. In the one drawing or canvas, Vorkals can reveal himself to be a national romantic, a cosmopolitan cynic and a human being. That's interesting.
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